Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Last night, I finally watched last year’s 3-hour-long The Wolf of Wall Street, which purports to tell the true story of Jordan Belfort, a guy who got rich beyond his wildest dreams of avarice thanks to the empire he built by fraudulently selling worthless penny stocks. The film garnered a
Continue readingBen Shapiro doesn’t like Noah, the newest Hollywood wannabe blockbuster, this one based loosely on the Bible. At his own website, Truth Now, and at Breitbart, he vigorously attacks the movie for turning the Bible on its head. As you read here some months ago, Hollywood has taken one of
Continue readingMedian household income for family of 4 = $51,000. Value of #Oscar swag bag = $85000. Hollywood speeches on inequality = Priceless. — Pundit Review (@PunditReview) March 1, 2014
Continue readingJust yesterday, I pointed you to Roger L. Simon’s post arguing that conservatives are making a terrible mistake when they bail on the movie industry. Our intensely media-driven age, means that increasingly hard-left Hollywood is a superb propagandist that often provides the only information people get on a subject. The
Continue readingShirley Temple, may she rest in peace, wasn’t just an old movie star. She was — and to some extent, remains — an American icon. That alone entitles her to notice. But the President also should have noticed her passing because she was a former ambassador for the United States,
Continue readingI’ve been reading a great deal about Obama’s proposed ambassadorial appointments, some of whom have never been to the countries in which they’ll be America’s representatives. They’re getting the jobs as sinecures in exchange for financial services rendered to the President. Much as I’m always happy to leap onto the
Continue readingA friend tipped me off to the fact that a few deranged individuals have been sending hate mail and threats to an absolutely adorable five-year-old girl who stars on the Disney Channel’s show Good Luck Charlie. The trigger for this behavior was an episode in the show that saw Disney
Continue readingMulti-talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, died an unsavory death today: alone in his bathroom, with a needle in his arm, presumably of a drug overdose. He leaves behind a woman he never married, and three children, ages 10 and under, who will grow up without their father. It’s a
Continue readingI’m really good at reviewing bad movies. They’re fun to review because they give me a chance to express the venom that builds up in me as I watch a movie that assaults my intelligence or my values. I have the opposite problem with good movies. All that I can
Continue reading“Six By Sondheim” is a new, well-produced HBO documentary that stitches together the many interviews Stephen Sondheim has given over the years since the late 1950s and then ties those interviews in with six of his best-known or (to him) most important songs. NPR enthused that the show leaves viewers
Continue readingThe last time I saw a first-run movie was in England, when we watched the final Harry Potter film. What this means is that I pay very little attention to news about upcoming movies. Since I’m not going to watch them, why pay attention? I was vaguely aware, though, that
Continue readingCher is undoubtedly a talented performer. She’s also capable of being extremely crude, vulgar, and mean. Over the years, she’s criticized conservatives using sexual and scatological insults that do nothing to advance political discourse; they just debase conversation. That’s why it came as a surprise — a very pleasant one
Continue readingI know this must be another Great Depression, because when I read the headlines, I get greatly depressed. It’s useful to remind ourselves that we weathered one and, God willing, can weather another. So I give you Busby Berkeley’s kaleidoscopic homage to lovely ladies:
Continue readingTypical for Saturday Night Live, it’s not actually funny. I enjoyed it simply because we’ve finally reached the point in the Obama fairy-tale where the formerly credulous population has at last realized Emperor Obama wears no clothes. As always, it’s too little, too late, since we’re still stuck with the
Continue readingThe WaPo’s Richard Cohen wants you to know that 12 Years A Slave is an extremely important movie because it gives Americans a surprising new message that they need to hear: Slavery is bad. I don’t know under what rock Cohen has been living, but the last major American movie
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