Think one pissed-off conservative can’t take on leftist Hollywood and win? Read on.
Tag: Hollywood
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Reflecting American Dreams and American Nightmares
Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd” (1957) takes the audience along for a ride that ends up in front of a mirror.
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The Imperfect Nostalgia of ‘Unfrosted’
Jerry Seinfeld’s otherwise genius combination of childhood nostalgia and comedy is marred by a lack of political temperance that deflates the experience for at least half the audience.
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‘Risky Business’ As Conservative Morality Tale?
“Risky Business” wasn’t supposed to be a sly indictment of capitalism. A coming re-release from the Criterion Collection restores the director’s original intention as a warning about crazy women and the power of sex to destroy men.
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Cancer and American Films
Hollywood’s decades-long fascination with the 0the struggles of cancer patients may tell us more about the human condition than many people traumatized by the disease want to know.
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The Quintessential Hollywood Affair
'Bogie & Bacall' explores the dichotomy between the image of a perfect Hollywood couple and the dark reality of one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.
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Oscar Oversights
Black actors and authors are still ignored in Hollywood—including some with very revealing stories to tell.
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Don’t Blame the Patriarchy for ‘Barbie’ Snub
The Oscars have been a den of meaninglessness and identity politics du jour for so long now that it really shouldn’t matter who gets nominated and who gets overlooked.
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At the Intersection of Love and Technology
No matter the advances in technology, filmgoers still long for the magic evoked by the plot device of an implausible lost love reunion depending more on fate than human initiative.
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Fake News Has Always Been a Thing
In re-airing the classic Absence of Malice, Turner Classic Movies reminds us of the sort cinéma vérité about unscrupulous journalism we rarely see from a Hollywood devoted to political leftism.
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Looking for Cary Grant
A new series about the quintessential Hollywood heartthrob reveals the dangers we encounter when we hide our true identities so well, they become forgotten—even to us.
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Archie Bunker Back Stories
Carl Reiner’s son, Rob, takes part in a grand tradition on the left of demonizing normal, religious people after being advanced, personally, by powerful relationships. On the left, it’s all relative and “all in the family.”
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‘The Whole Town’s Talking’ and Edward G. Robinson’s Case of Mistaken Identity
There isn’t one wasted moment in this tightly directed and acted 1935 John Ford screwball comedy featuring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur.
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The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes
In Sidney Lanfield’s 1939 production of The Hound of Baskervilles, we have a perfect ghostly reflection for spooky October viewing.
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A Problem with Creating Politically Correct Holidays
Juneteenth—or June 19—is not a good choice for celebrating the end of slavery.
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Merian Cooper, Conquering Hero
With the war in Ukraine dangerously close to Poland, the specter is raised of the forgotten Polish-Soviet War of 1920. American pilots came to Poland's aid in that war, most importantly World War I veteran and King Kong director Merian C. Cooper.
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Battier and Battier
An extra moody, extra dark new installment of The Batman franchise asks its audience to believe the world would be a better place if the have-nots took by force from the haves in order to make a more equitable society.