The most fundamental of all the liberal principles handed down to us from the Enlightenment and the very cornerstone of our civilization is the “categorical imperative” of Immanuel Kant: namely, that one cannot act on that maxim which one cannot will to be universal. In other words, if it’s OK for me to do it,…
Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.
What might have been devastating satire becomes just a funny movie about crazy people — not that that’s nothing
Once again, Clint Eastwood reaches after profundity and compassion but can grasp only conventional emotions and beliefs
A very watchable film with likable characters suffers from a stereotypical view of religious belief and believers
When the media’s eternal marketing of its revelations of hidden truths runs into a slight supply problem — From The New Criterion of September, 2006
According to The Times of London, Dominic Dromgoole, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre there is scoring some good press for himself and his theatre by offering to a grateful public his opinion of where Shakespeare screwed up, claiming that the even more eminent Shakespearean director, Sir Peter Hall, agrees with him. “Peter’s take…
Romanticism returns to the movies, but not in a good way, alas — From The American Spectator of September, 2006
Slick, good-looking and utterly empty, Steven Zaillian’s vision of fascism come to America is laughable as politics and incoherent as cinema
