Building Partner CapacityGlobal Engagement Center By way of explaining his eight failed marriages, the American bandleader Artie Shaw once remarked, “I am an incurable optimist.” In reality,...
Alt-Right Jane AustenMansfield ParkSanditon Baroness P.D. James’ murder mystery sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” Among the classic novelists, Jane Austen (1775-1817) has been the most...
Get OutGet Out A spat has broken out over the hit anti-white horror movie Get Out, which I reviewed in Taki’s Magazine. From the NYT: ‘Get Out’ Star Responds to Samuel L. Jackson’s...
Battleship If you are an American male of a certain age — Donald Trump’s age, to be exact — you are likely to have vivid memories of Victory at Sea, the Emmy award-winning NBC documentary...
The other day, I walked across much of Manhattan Island on the street where I grew up. Once upon a time, in a space of just four blocks along that very street there were four movie theaters (no small...
Deep StateDeep StateNew World OrderFrontiers. There’s a lot of talk these days about the “Deep State,” especially among supporters of President Trump, some of whom believe that this...
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! From the New York Times: Establishing the identity of the colossus is complicated because it has been broken into pieces and only fragments of the face have...
From Slate: The Disturbing Truth That Makes Get Out Depressingly Plausible By Damon Young … It is just disproportionately easier for us to be snatched, plundered, discarded, and ultimately...
The Great Wall Here are embeds to my two most recent videos for Newsbud. They pair together nicely as they track the evolving stories on Pakistan/Afghanistan and North Korea. Trump may be sucking all...
The Brady BunchMiss Peregrine'sEdward ScissorhandsEd WoodWilly Wonka.Goldfinger Veteran fantasy director has a new movie out starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, and Rupert...
I finally went to see two popular animated movies at the $3 theater: Disney’s big budget / big hit Zootopia and the medium budget / medium hit Angry Birds based on the Finnish smartphone game....
They LiveAmerican PravdaHigh IQ IdiotI-word In 1999, a big hit movie was The Matrix. I went and saw it but I don’t recall it making much of an impression on me. At the time, my understanding of...
Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest movie, is a cheerful comedy about a busy week in 1951 at the fictitious Hollywood studio, Capitol Pictures, where their Barton Fink took place in 1941. That...
Blood SimpleHail Caesar! With a 17th Coen Brothers movie on the way this week, I return to an old question: How have the two middle-aged men gone over 30 years without the kind of public spats that are...
The Big ShortBrooklynEx MachinaMad Max: Fury RoadThe MartianThe RevenantSicarioSpotlightStraight Outta ComptonMad MaxInside OutCreedSteve JobsTrainwreckStar WarsCarolRoomJoyTrumboCreedJurassic WorldWolf...
I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977. My hunch is that it was aimed in part to rope in the giant Chinese audience, which was too...
Pretty Apollo Creed, July 4, 1976 Creed is a worthy (if almost too respectful) addition to the canon of Rocky movies. The basic pitch by writer-director Ryan Coogler (who has the name of a white quarterback,...
Taxi DriverMasculinity.The Republican Drug. Male movie stars were not expected to lift weights for much of Hollywood history. Stewart’s campaign ribbons For example, around 1983-85 I was sitting...
Star Wars Watching Sir Ridley Scott’s The Martian, I got to thinking about how Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, and Chiwetel Ejiofor are, like a lot of other actors over the years, starting to get typecast...
MAVMars Ascent Vehicle Matt Damon plays a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars in Sir Ridley Scott’s faithful adaptation of the ultra-hard sci-fi novel originally self-published in 2011 by Andy Weir....
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