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
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
“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
Kill Bill: Volume 2
The opening of Mean Girls this week seems an appropriate occasion to take a look at some really mean girls
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
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found
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
United States of Leland, The
Kevin Spacey, sensitivity snob, is in his element in this laughably inept tribute to teen angst.