“€˜Roast”€™ Writers: Ann Coulter Hurt Our Feelings!

The overall quality of Comedy Central's celebrity roasts might have declined measurably since the untimely death of Greg Giraldo (arguably the best roaster ever"€”sorry, Jeff ...

Dinesh D’souza’s America

Dinesh D'souza is a funny little man who is actually of normal height but looks so unthreatening, you can"€™t help but think what a cute kid he must have been. You"€™d be ...

Sunset Blvd

“€œI Would Like to Shank the Academy…”€

So apparently the Academy Awards are now the most racist, evil thing in the world, having surpassed the left's last most racist, evil thing in the world (what was that again? ...

Spike Lee

The Oscar Grouches

Back in August in my review of Straight Outta Compton, I predicted that the rap biopic was likely to cause a racial controversy for the Academy Awards because, while the movie ...

Steven Spielberg

Bridging the Gaps

Almost three years ago, the Academy Awards gave the Best Picture Oscar to Ben Affleck's Iranian hostage drama Argo to encourage making more medium-budget movies for grown-ups. ...

Steve Jobs

Aaron Sorkin: Master of the Middlebrow

Steve Jobs, the superbly theatrical film about the Apple cofounder's turbulent mid-career arc, opened in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend to the best per-theater grosses ...

A Tale of Two Suburbs

Two of the better movies of 2015 are weirdly similar musical biopics about bands from Los Angeles"€™ south suburbs. Last June's Love & Mercy profiled Brian Wilson of the ...

Much Ado About ‘Compton’

"€œCan"€™t go to a movie the first week it opens. Why? Because niggers are shooting at the screen."€ "€”Chris Rock, 1997 Still wondering if Marco Rubio should get to sit ...

Leonardo Dicaprio

The British Invasion

Are American actors in decline due to the rise of better-trained British leading men, as an Atlantic article by Terrence Rafferty contends? Sure, the younger Brits are more ...

Brian Wilson

Life of Brian

Love & Mercy is a superb new biopic about head Beach Boy Brian Wilson's creative summit in 1966, the year of the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album (featuring the sublime ...

Charlize Theron in Fury Road

Fury Road at the Box Office

The four Mad Max movies are nominally post-apocalyptic, although their explanations for the end of civilization keeps mutating as the budgets expand, from the decline of morality ...

Battle of Wounded Egos

"€œBlazing Saddles could never get made today."€ We all know how virulent political correctness has become. In fact, to cite another tedious cliché, it's been "€œgoing ...

Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles

Hollywood Plays with Fire

In July of 1870, King Wilhelm sent Foreign Minister Bismarck an account of his meeting with a French envoy who had demanded that the king renounce any Hohenzollern claim to the ...

Pirate Baywatch

Last week, we learned Sony Pictures had been hacked and millions of people were downloading movies still in theaters. Sony seems to think North Korea may be behind it all, as ...

Bill Cosby

America’s Rapist Dad

Bill Cosby is the first black person that I ever remember my family liking. Then again, it's not as if we knew any black people personally. Even though Cosby and I grew up a mere ...

Interstellar Stoic

With the exception of the teeming masses of Philip K. Dick adaptations, science fiction movies (such as the new Interstellar) tend to be based on original screenplays rather ...


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