Enormous
Surprise: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie about a fireman hunting
down the terrorist who murdered his family is the #1 movie in the
country!...
My Review of Schwarzenegger’s smart and geopolitically sober Collateral Damage.
Enormous Surprise: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie about a fireman hunting ...
Jenin
and Black Hawk Down – In
my review of the ultra-realistic war movie last January, I pointed
out the inherent dilemma that a superior military has...
My Review of the new movie version of Dave Barry’s “Big Trouble.”
Jenin and Black Hawk Down – In my review of the ultra-realistic war movie last January, I pointed out the inherent dilemma that a superior military has when invading a ...
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – I’m going to review this Dreamworks animated feature next week, but I need to understand: Why do so many little girls love horses? ...
The Sum of All Fears (click here for my review) is the fourth straight strong, smart movie to be made from a Tom Clancy novel. None of the Jack Ryan movies is great, but ...
Here’s an interesting article on an experiment showing that people tend to trust people who look like themselves more than they trust others: "Lisa DeBruine of...
Forecasting movie grosses – I’ve been discussing the topic with an amateur expert named Colby Cosh. You can reduce the entire prediction problem down to a simple formula...
"Can Diversity Survive Tolerance?" This is my big feature article on the Parsis, the remarkably educated and affluent Zoroastrian ethnic group from Bombay, whose collective...
Tom Ricks has an important article
in the WaPo on why the Pentagon brass is a lot less enthusiastic
about invading Iraq than the neo-cons and the bloggers. One of...
"You’re
going to hear a lot of flapdoodle about how "The Powerpuff Girls
Movie" furnishes girls with strong, empowered feminist role models.
Overall, though,...
With comic books taking over American culture (see my review of "Road to
Perdition" on Thursday), I’ve dreamed up my own superhero:
LitiGator: A lawyer is bitten...
Tom Hanks’ extraordinarily well-crafted new movie "Road to
Perdition" is well worth seeing, but only if you read my
review first and thus know what not to expect...
Harrison Ford in K-19: The Widowmaker – My
review.
"Now that Austin Powers has battled Dr. Evil from Belgium and Goldmember from
the Netherlands, whom is Mike Myers going to skewer in his next sequel:
a Luxembourgian...
Barbershop
opens with a first weekend of $21 million, about three times
expectations, a lot of money for mid-September. It’s a terrific little
movie. It will...
I can’t pass up this plug from the always interesting artbloggers 2Blowhards.com,
in their list of blogs that go beyond politics to touch on culture:
* ...
Thursday: Richard Lynn reports a new study that finds
that American Jews have an average verbal IQ of 107.5. "
"The results provide seven points of interest....
‘Mom,
was
Dad really blacklisted or just not very talented?" Practically every
interview with Gary Ross, the writer-director of Seabiscuit,
includes...
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