Brad Pitt drops by 12 Years a Slave
after a barnraising on the Witness set From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine:
New Movie, Same Old Skin Game
12 Years a Slaveâa...
From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine:
The exuberant 127 Hours, director Danny Boyleâs first movie since winning the Best Picture Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, is surprisingly...
The last thing I had expected of Dinesh DâSouzaâs first Michael Moore-type political documentary, 2016: Obamaâs...
"A Day Without A Mexican" The June 21st issue of The
American Conservative is now readable by subscribers to its electronic
edition. An excerpt from my film review:
Currently ...
Here’s my review for The American Conservative of the Angelina Jolie flick that got the critics all excited but died at the box office.
Thirty seconds into Angelina Jolie’s explanatory...
“A Most Violent Year” stars Oscar Isaac as, pretty much, a brooding Michael Corleone trying to go straight in the heating oil business in New York’s outer boroughs in 1981. Isaac plays...
The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival...
From my upcoming review in The American Conservative:
At the 2005 Oscars, host Chris Rock asked,
“Who is Jude Law? Why is he in every movie I have seen the last four years? Even...
Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming review in The American Conservative raising some quibbles about this fine biopic about William Wilberforce, who persuaded Parliament to ban the slave trade 200...
The global triumph of Anglo-Saxon culture is manifested in the World Cup, where the main heretics about the appeal of an English game, soccer, are other Anglo countries, such as America, Canada, and Australia,...
From my review in the upcoming American Conservativz:
“… and the screenplay practically writes itself!”
It’s hard to avoid suspecting that’s how filmmaker Paul Weitz...
Having just watched and read “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” I thought it time to post on the web my August 2001 review for UPI of the last Jesse James movie,...
From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine of the spectacular adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic by director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law:
Third...
Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie about the collapse of Mayan civilization in pre-Columbian times, with an all-Mayan cast speaking Mayan, looks from the previews like nothing in Hollywood...
Here’s an excerpt from my review in The American Conservative:
The bald and square-jawed Ed Harris has played American heroes and psycho killers since first drawing notice as astronaut John Glenn...
Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Randâs 1957...
From my review in The American Conservative:
Many successful date movies, such as “Casablanca” and “Gone with the Wind,” combine a love story for the ladies and a war for the...
Here’s my American Conservative review of “Australia,” which only got one Oscar nomination — Best Costumes for director Baz Luhrman’s wife. (So, Baz gets shut out, but at...
The director and the screenwriter of “Babel,” the Golden Globe-winning “Best Drama” of 2006, have been feuding over...
From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine of the hit comedy with Cameron Diaz playing a bad teacher:
The second least glamorous job in showbiz is teaching schoolchildren. Itâs...
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