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Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere and it be...

Why J.R.R. Tolkien’s Enduring Popularity Is a Cause for Hope in Our Popular Culture By   David P. Goldman   Peter Jackson’s first of...

Screening Liberty By JORDAN BLOOM It’s easy to flip through television channels today and see a wasteland, from the redneck voyeurism ...

Kids: Smarter Than Adults by J. Tucker  It's happened yet again: I found another movie presumably made for kids that easily be...

The moral descent of a drug-dealing chemistry teacher with cancer has been turned into sublime TV by Emmet Livingstone   To all you TV...

Evil and Human Liberty by Jeffrey Tucker The problem of evil is a big theme for a movie, and certainly for a movie based on a comic b...

The Dark Knight Rises By Zach Foster One of the remarkable things about this Batman series is the way Hollywood — a bastion of t...

Not so melancholic about destroying the planet By Philip Cross I t was widely noted that the films screened at the recent Cannes film ...

Elia Kazan Reconsidered By Bruce Edward Walker The short list of best American film directors will forever include Elia Kazan, whose c...

A side of Shakespeare the classroom never prepared us for   By Joe Sobran A little tired of politics?  Of course you are. We all are. ...

The Third Man   by Joseph Sobran For my money, the greatest movie ever made is  The Third Man , first released 60 years ago and re-rel...

All's Fair in Politics and Celebrity by Theodore Dalrymple  If, as the French historian, Pierre Nora, recently put it in a newspaper ...

The New Generation The posthumous tale of a Russian professor’s nightmarish encounter with a former student By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

The End of the World: H. G. Wells by   Thomas F. Bertonneau   The End of the World is an apocalyptic myth that first becomes promine...

The Melancholia of the  middle classes   Lars von Trier’s new film brilliantly teases out the link between the rot of the bourgeois mi...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Travesty By P. Hitchen In a minute, I will say why the new film of  'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' is ...

Midnight in Woodyland by Christian Toto If you thought Woody Allen waxed poetic about New York City on film, wait until you settle into yo...

Where Have All the Paintings  Gone? "A cleaner (janitor) at a London gallery cleared away an installation by artist Damien Hirst having...