Fargo

Here are the good things about The Legend of Bagger Vance, written by Jeremy Leven from the novel by Steven Pressfield and directed by Robert Redford. It tells a story set in Savannah, Georgia, in about 1930 and never once mentions Jim Crow or Southern white racism. So familiar by now is the iconography of…

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

Almost everyone can enjoy a really dumb movie once in a while, but it would seem to be a minimum requirement that it at least be funny.

A lovely film from the author of Gomorrah that explores, with humor but little hope, the God-shaped hole in the life of our culture

The best comment on Howard Stern’s Private Parts came in the New Yorker cartoon that showed one rueful movie-goer saying to the other: “I think I hate liking Howard Stern even more than I liked hating him.” Here he presents himself, with the help of Betty (Brady Bunch) Thomas, as just a good old-fashioned, all-American…

A thrilling, true-life account of American heroism in Afghanistan in 2005 and an end-around Hollywood’s leftist politics