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In case you are wondering, this is actually not me, it's some AI app pretending to be me while reading my recent review of "Barbie" from Taki's Magazine. And the AI is doing a pretty good job! For a few...

From my movie review in Taki's Magazine: Thin Man Steve Sailer August 02, 2023 In director Christopher Nolan’s campaign to save moviegoing from technological and social obsolescence, his latest ploy...

Sorry about a lack of posting, but I've been writing a long review of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer for Taki's Magazine. Here's a question I haven't seen widely discussed. J. Robert Oppenheimer fell...

At least the movie "Hidden Figures" claimed that blacks got America into outer space, which would be cool if true. In contrast, the current film "Flamin' Hot" claims (dubiously) that a Latino invented...

From American Mind: Soviet America’s Sweethearts Scott McConnell The Red Scare podcast brings a downtown dissident edge to the table. If you ask friends about Red Scare, you get two types of responses....

From GQ: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a cult movie for the kind of middle-aged 3-digit IQ guys with demanding jobs who are usually too busy to have a cult movie. As I wrote in 2003:...

The BAFTA awards are the Academy Awards of Britain. The big winner this year was the German remake of Erich Remarque's great World War One novel All Quiet on the Western Front. I haven't watched it, in...

From Palo Alto Online: What hath Palo Alto wrought? New book examines troubled legacy of Silicon Valley capitalism by Gennady Sheyner / Palo Alto Weekly Uploaded: Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 5:17 pm 4 Time to read:...

The Offer is a miniseries on the Paramount streaming service about the behind scenes story of the making of Paramount's classic film The Godfather in 1972. I've watched parts of it while falling asleep,...

My wife has decided to watch classic movie musicals that have gotten even more entertaining over the decades because they are now so sexist that they'd make most Current Year people's heads explode. So...

See How They Run is a movie now on streaming that riffs on Agatha Christie's murder mystery play The Mousetrap (a title derived from that of the play within a play in Hamlet) that has run for 29,000 performances...

In part because soccer games are usually rather boring to watch, soccer highlights can be exciting in contrast. Here are the most famous goals by the most famous Argentines, Diego Maradona's Goal of the...

The writer, Martin McDonagh, and stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, of the wildly entertaining 2008 film In Bruges are back together for The Banshees of Inisherin, a dramedy about two best friends...

The most prestigious poll of serious movie aficionados is Sight & Sound's, which tends to formulate the slow-moving canon of Cinema 101 canon of Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Rules of the Game, Persona, etc....

By accident, I happened to watch back to back two movies that are about as far apart in terms of which personalities they appeal to as movies can get: Kevin Costner in Draft Day from 2014 about a Cleveland...

From the Washington Post opinion section: Wakanda won't share its Magic Dirt, vibranium, with the West, who are stuck with their Tragic Dirt. ... Given all this, “Black Panther” is a bit of a technological-revenge...

The 2022 movie The Northman is a formidable Viking tale in which young Prince Amleth loses his kingdom when his uncle murders his father the king and then marries his mother, so he vows vengeance. It's...

Over the last three decades, Mike Judge has been one of the major contributors to American popular culture, creating the tremendous TV shows Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, and Silicon Valley and...