The bill is coming due for liberal Hollywood’s struggling film industry, which blindly supported Democrats who never return the favor.
Tag: Movies
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The Elites, the Popular Classes, and ‘The Bad News Bears’
The American classic that walked a generation through the cultural chaos of the 1970s turns 50 this year.
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Feminism vs. Feminine Mystery in Film: ‘The Bride!’ and ‘Little Trouble Girls’
Two recent films offer views of feminism and femininity at odds with one another and demonstrating how vacuous Hollywood’s understanding of both has become.
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‘Köln 75’ Reminded Me Why I Love Movies
This small-budget German film is heads and shoulders above anything generating Oscar buzz this year.
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Pope Leo and the Illiteracy of Modern Movies
When we consider what film once was and what it can be, we realize what we are losing as we lose literacy.
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Visual Muzak and Digital Slop
The entertainment industry has changed to cater to our increasingly fragmented attention spans.
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A Young Filmmaker’s Take on the Tales of Youth
Paul Roland’s inspiration in the legendary filmmaker, John Hughes, offers some hope that Hollywood can once again tell the poignant stories of American teenagers.
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Living in the Knowledge of Dying
Danny Boyle’s film ‘28 Years Later’ delivers exactly the subversive message a dying Western civilization needs to hear.
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The Moviegoer: Realism, Femme Fatales, and Film Noir
Film noir presented a reality that embraced both darkness and glamour, thus getting viewers closer to confronting the truth.
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The Latest ‘Mission Impossible’ Is a Movie That Missed the Vibe Shift
The poorly conceived product of liberal creators painting populism as the enemy of the future is, in fact, a sad outburst from a time that is already gone.
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No Time for Garbage Horror Films
Terrifier 3 is a garbage film, not because it’s in the horror genre, but because it fails to grapple with any serious theme. Fortunately, we have so many alternatives.
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‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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A Jolt from the Slumber of the Self
Werner Herzog, in his new memoir, turns his attention to himself, and singles out essential elements of his life that have given birth to ideas, perceptions, and films.
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The Quintessential Hollywood Affair
'Bogie & Bacall' explores the dichotomy between the image of a perfect Hollywood couple and the dark reality of one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.
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Longing for the Sacred
Though his portrayal of the Catholic saint is superficial at best, Padre Pio director Abel Ferrara's at least accomplish something, accidentally, by leading the film's star onto a redemptive path.
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Sailing Ships and Troubled Waters
The ship captain as Nietzschean superman, in the 1941 film adaptation of Jack London's The Sea Wolf