There is a fairly typical formula for the Hollywood male hero. He should be strong, handsome, and courageous, with a devil-may-care desire for the dangerous. He should be intelligent and tough —...
In a heartening sign, a number of counties in Pennsylvania have chosen to defy Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown order. The Beaver County Board of Commissioners announced on May 8 that the District Attorney...
GSTAAD—The staff is back and all is well, as they used to say long ago in faraway places. The gardener and the cleaner are Portuguese, and they greet me with their inherent dignity from afar. The...
Twelve Monkeys (1995) is Terry Gilliam’s last great movie. It is a masterful work of dystopian science fiction, with a highly imaginative plot, a tight and literate script, fantastic steampunkish...
What’s philosophical about Fight Club? Fight Club belongs alongside Network and Pulp Fiction in an End of History film festival, because it beautifully illustrates ideas about human nature, history,...
When I saw Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, I was convinced that David Lynch is an essentially conservative and religious filmmaker, with a populist and mystical bent. Arguing that thesis was an uphill battle...
Editor’s Note: American Renaissance first published this column by Paul Kersey in February of 2019. This weekend, the push to rename John Wayne Airport has been renewed, and in light of recent events,...
Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to...
Comedy giant (e.g., The Dick Van Dyke Show) Carl Reiner is dead at 98. Unfortunately, this clip ends before Carl Reiner's funniest moment in Ocean's Twelve: which is when the Bruce Willis, playing movie...
Tiberius, the Roman emperor of darkest fame, retired to the island of Capri. In the month of the heat wave, when the Dog constellation is at its zenith and Sirius shines brightly, the emperor ordered a...
From The Telegraph: Two previous eras of black supremacist ideology -- the late 1960s and the early 1990s -- both came a-cropper when they got too many Jews peeved at black anti-Semitism. For example,...
Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color, I had never heard that it’s so childish....
For instance, Rolling Stone, a publication with roots in the anti-war movement of the 1960s, headlined, “A War Film Remembers the Fallen,” adding that the film “pays heartfelt tribute...
Apple pie, farms, local movie theaters, pickup baseball games, swimming holes, volunteer firemen, and small libraries with very old lady librarians: an America soon to be gone with the wind. I just read...
In Oblivion, a pretty good 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie that preceded Cruise's 2014 hard sci-fi peak in the Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (Groundhog Day mashed with Starship Troopers), Tom Cruise...
Storytelling (2001) is the most politically incorrect movie I have ever seen. Indeed, it is so un-PC that it could never have been made today. Director Todd Solondz is a really sick guy. His films Welcome...
From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Keeping Up With ‘Mr. Jones’ Steve Sailer July 29, 2020 In the biopic Mr. Jones, the insidious Peter Sarsgaard plays Walter Duranty, the sinister...
My new movie review is of Mr. Jones, the story of Gareth Jones who helped break in 1933 the story of the Ukraine famine that was being covered up Walter Duranty of the New York Times and the rest of the...
American Pimp is a 1999 documentary directed by the Hughes Brothers, the half-black, half-Armenian twins who also directed Menace II Society and Dead Presidents. American Pimp fallen into obscurity and...
Africa Addio (Goodbye Africa) (1966), co-directed, co-edited, and co-authored by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi of Mondo Cane fame, is a must-see red-pill documentary for race-realists. Filmed...
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