Recently I’ve been thinking about James Herbert’s 1975 book The Fog, which I read when it was first published (I’ve been a horror fan since childhood; as a kid there wasn’t a horror film or book...
Hey, peeps! We.. are BACK, baby! After a bit of a break, come and join us for another episode of The Searchers podcast! This time, we three discuss a Hong Kong film, Painted Faces. A late ‘80s biographical...
Peter Parker, the first and prime web-head with eyes lit with joy proceeds to show Miguel O’Hara, Spider-Man 2099, pictures of his young daughter Mayday on his phone…
Peter: Miguel, look at this...
Besides these glaringly unimaginative phrases such as, “This film ran, so this other film can walk” or fittingly for this write-up, the use of the suffix, “ception,” to both describe a layered...
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...
Indy’s goddaughter speaks to him during a brief respite as they drift off towards an ancient shipwreck in the Aegean Sea…
Helena: What if you could go back in time? What would you do?
Truthfully,...
Recovering from the poison he willingly consumed so as for the Commissaire’s (Mathieu Amalric) kidnapped son to be saved, police officer/chef Lt. Nescaffier (Stephen Park) reveals a surprising truth...
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...
BARBENHEIMER PART II
During his security hearing, the theoretical physicist, under intense scrutiny plus mental and physical distress, confides to his lawyer the unprincipled, defamatory, and shallow...
Culture
Of an Age, or for All Time?
Two new books about Beethoven and Mozart refer us back to the composers’ works directly—with mixed...
Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie All the meaning in life comes from the things that give you wrinkles.
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Oppenheimer and the Roots of Tragedy Christopher Nolan is the foremost cinematic proponent of the Great Man Theory of history.
The moviegoer who was brutally beaten over a seat at a Florida theater earlier this month said he suffered a broken nose as his attacker “just went to town,” according to a report.
{snip} The...
Tim Ballard: God’s children are not for sale.
It’s a bit difficult to recall exactly how word of another Alejandro Monteverde film post-Bella and one starring Jim Caviezel had made its way through...
The Radiant City Le Corbusier’s influential vision of totalitarian architecture has never coexisted with organic human reality.
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...
“The Little Mermaid” has bombed with moviegoers in China and South Korea amid racist critiques in some quarters over the casting of Black actress Halle Bailey as main character Ariel.
Disney’s...
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