Troy
It’s not Homer, of course, but Wolfgang Peterson’s romanticization of Homer has its own story to tell
Super Size Me
The latest news from the plaintiff’s bar: Morgan Spurlock may have found a way for fatties to get their pudgy hands on McDonalds’ billions
Kill Bill: Volume 2
The opening of Mean Girls this week seems an appropriate occasion to take a look at some really mean girls
“Root-causeism” and electability
The international left, home of noble if forlorn causes, is now reduced to just two: feeling good about themselves and feeling smarter than the rest of us.
— From The New Criterion, April, 2004
Why Not be Anti-Semiotic?
A young man is tortured to death for the cameras? Hey! Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?
— From The American Spectator, April 2004
Entry from April 29, 2004
Brad Miner, a former literary editor of National Review has written a new book called The Compleat Gentleman (Dallas: Spence Publishing, 258 pp., $27.95, available through www.spencepublishing.com) which culminates in the following definition of a gentleman: He is the descendant of the medieval knight and the Victorian gentleman; he is very much like them except…
Entry from April 16, 2004
There seems to be a gathering consensus among the anti-Bush intelligentsia that the problems of our problem-filled world, and especially those of the problem-filled Bush foreign policy, are all caused by religion. Or, as a correspondent of The Times of London writes, “many, if not all, of the ills of the past 100 years have…
Ladykillers, The
The latest Coen brothers film is a remake of a 1955 classic that seems not to notice that the entire moral context of the original has vanished
I’m Not Scared (Io non ho paura)
A gripping and well-made Italian film that never quite gets around to answering the biggest of the questions it raises
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . .And Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom)
There’s a lot going on in this mesmerizing Korean movie, yet all appears as still as the mountain lake on which it is set.