The Ohio man with my name is making me look bad, and I’m starting to take it just a little bit personally. It apparently isn’t a 2020s Christmas until Vivek Ramaswamy pours kerosene over his political future in the form of an essay where any valid kernel of a point he makes within it is […]
American Civil Rights is now a “right-wing” cause. It was apparently not enough that working out, liking hot girls, and eating red meat are all considered right wing. Nor was it enough that liking America, being patriotic, or flying the stars and stripes are also now right wing by default. In 2025 America, it is […]
It had to be done.
Last night, Pete Hegseth was confirmed to be the next Secretary of Defense. With three Republican Senators voting against him – two of them hailing from states that elected President Trump by overwhelming margins – this is the first confirmation process in several years that required the Vice President’s tiebreaker vote. As the confirmation process […]
★★ When a movie is less than good, it matters less where it lies within the chronological order of its franchise and more how it got to be its way. A little over a decade ago, Fede Alvarez rebooted The Evil Dead (1980). The final product was a misfire worth remembering only for the concentrated […]
★★ Richard Linklater and Glen Powell are not deep thinkers. Hit Man would be a much better film if they understood that. Linklater in particular has never evolved in his musings about life, human needs, and the sense of self after one, no more than two, semesters of college. If he took more than that, […]
★★★½ I don’t believe in the end of history. Count me proudly among those many – left, right, and center – who mocked ol’ Francis Fukuyama for his book, and still adheres to the imperfect, yet far more perceptive word of Fukuyama’s old teacher Samuel Huntington and his response essay The Clash of Civilizations? Back […]
The “Movies of the Century – Year by Year” can be found here. Happy New Year, maybe. It feels strange that we are entering the 25th year of the 21st century, so I guess there should be 24 movies here, but it’s too late now and it’s my list. Continuing last year’s tradition, this is the […]
The tradition continues. What began in the previous year continues through 2023. And if we’re all still alive and able to comprehend the insanity of global and domestic events next year, it will continue again. You will notice some changes to this list, as well as the next one. That’s part of the fun of continuity. As time accrues, […]
★★★ If this film was Star Wars: Episode VII, no one would have complained about it. With Gareth Edwards’s The Creator joined now by Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, a pair of very good filmmakers who were both in their own ways rejected and spurned by the Disney regime […]
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