Ground Truth, The
Yet another pretend “documentary” that’s really just anti-war propaganda
Entry from September 14, 2006
Now it can be told. I’ve been just a bit embarrassed by the uniformly good reviews of Honor: A History so far. Not that there have been that many. But that’s sort of the point. When The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, National Review, The American Spectator and The Weekly…
Past the Political, to the Healing and Rebuilding
Two television shows plucked from the torrent of 9/11 commemoration — From The New York Sun of September 11, 2006
Petit Lieutenant, Le
An interesting French film that plays around with movie-stereotypes of the police, though it could do more to subvert them
Entry from August 31, 2006
“Calling James Bowman. . .” writes David Frum in his Diary on NRO today, and he invites my comments on the proposition that Richard Armitage, former deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell and now revealed to be the ur-source of the leak of Valerie Plame’s name to the press has behaved dishonorably. Here is…
Cheap Laughs
It’s easy to look down on people for being disconnected from reality when you get to decide what reality is — From The New Criterion of June, 2006
Little Miss Sunshine
A surprisingly affectionate portrayal of American “success”-worship and its discontents which is also a barrel of laughs
Quiet, The
A girl who pretends to be deaf and a real bad dad don’t end up adding very much of interest to a routine high school melodrama
Blockbuster Banality
Another counterblast against the superhero — From The American Spectator of July-August, 2006
Invincible
The real-life version of Rocky finally gets his own movie
A Clone’s Lament
A poignant evocation of a world like our own but with an underclass of clones is less powerful than it might have been if it were more plausible — from The New Atlantis of Spring, 2006
