Oscar-night politics are always something to look forward to. The tedium of having to sit through a four hour orgy of self-congratulation by people who have obviously had far too much congratulation, self- and otherwise, already is enlivened only by the prospect of watching as one or more of the beautiful people say or do…
Lyndon LaRouche’s hour has come round at last, so why doesn’t he get more credit from his fellow Democrats? — From The New Criterion, February, 2004
Female empowerment has become such a desideratum of the popular culture that all other considerations must give way before it — From The American Spectator, February, 2004
A German film whose humor, sentiment, charm and lightness of touch make it seem almost French
Not long ago I read that Ethan Hawke — who is a movie actor, for those of you fortunate enough not to have had to witness, as I have had to do, any of his characteristically hang-dog appearances on the silver screen — said that President Bush was “probably the least prepared person to be president…
Mel, we may love you for the enemies you’ve made, but your movie is still a mess
Poor Meg Ryan can’t seem to find a decent role in which she is allowed to be a grown-up. Whose idea was it to try making her a boxing manager dressed like a hooker?
More evidence that pandering to teenage wish-fulfilment fantasies has taken the place of Hollywood’s old-fashioned style of earnest moralizing
Full marks to the mainstream media for refusing to report even a single word of the scurrilous gossip going around about John Kerry’s love-life. They’re not even reporting that Matt Drudge is reporting it, which is the usual way which these ugly rumors get into circulation by the back door. It reminds me of the…
Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting
The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice
