television
Dirty Sexy Morality Tale

 I don't suppose that many regular readers of this august publication missed my revie...

movies
“Eastern Promises” More Than It Delivers

Cronenberg's noble failure shows importance of a strong story. David Cronenberg's Eas...

television
CBS’ “Cane”—Just Depicting Ethnic Strife, or Fomenting It?

The new CBS TV series Cane is something of a return to the 1980s primetime soap opera sty...

commerce
Appalling Scandal of Alfred Hitchcock’s Collaboration

A new exhibit opening Friday at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art brings the a...

commerce
Hollywood’s Antiwar Investment—Wasted!

Here's a big non-surprise: the spate of antiwar films Hollywood has begun to release in re...

manners-and-morals
The Very Real Dangers of Race-Baiting

The current race controversy in Jena, Louisiana, is, as is the natural order of things, on...

commerce
Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11” DVD for Political Reasons?

The Hollywood actress known in print as Anna Nimouse notes today on National Review Online...

manners-and-morals
Boys Will Be Girls—on TV, in Movies, and in a Stylish Condo or Messy Apartment Near You

The tendency of the nation's schools to suppress boys' natural ways of seeing and doing th...

television
Unusual Moral Concerns in a Sitcom

 Back to You is an idea devised in TV programmer's Heaven: get the star of Frasier an...

television
Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares Reviewed

The new Fox TV reality program Kitchen Nightmares is, like the Fox summer reality series H...

movies
3:10 to Yuma: Review

 The new film 3:10 to Yuma isn't going gangbusters at the box office, which is a pity...

television
Some Cheese with Your Whine: K-Ville Premiere

The new Fox police drama K-Ville premiered last night at 9 EDT. It's a fairly standard cop...

philosophy
What Is Progressivism?

The philosophically inclined blogger Pascal Fervor has recently been trying to recover the...

uncategorized
A Big Change in the Debate Over Homosexuality

There's a fascinating article about the biology of sexuality, dealing particularly with qu...

commerce
59th Primetime Emmy Awards

The results announced at last night's Primetime Emmy Awards for what passes as television ...

commerce
Emmy Awards—I Don’t Care, But I Don’t Mind If You Do

I never watch award shows these days—haven't done so for about a half-dozen years&md...

commerce
Stossel on Health Care

John Stossel, co-anchor of the ABC-TV news magazine 20/20, has been producing superb work ...

manners-and-morals
Twilight of Liberty

According to  Reason magazine senior editor Radley Balko in testimony before the U.S....

music
Led Zeppelin to Reunite for Special Concert

The surviving members of the rock band Led Zeppelin will reunite to headline a concert in ...

books
Why Johnny Doesn’t Read

Men read far fewer books than women today. That's a documented fact, and the gap is becomi...

commerce
FCC Authority over Indecency Challenged—but Govt. Agency Is Right for Once

When it comes to regulation of communications, usually the FCC and the Congress have it al...

commerce
Defending the Indefensible, Based on Skin Color

The journalist and novelist Mark Goldblatt has frequently gone out on a limb to criticize ...

movies
Indy 4 Title Revealed

At last night's MTV Awards, actor Shia LaBeouf revealed that the title of the upcoming fou...

music
Pavarotti’s Achievements

The celebrated Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at age ...

commerce
Net Neutrality Is a Very Bad Idea, Justice Dept. Says

So-called Net neutrality, a concept favored by statists, under which Internet providers wo...

books
Gore Drops Other Shoe

If you think it's just a coincidence that all of the myriad of problems identified by the ...

commerce
De Palma’s War on Iraq War

The anti-Iraq War push is on in Hollywood, as recent U.S movies at the Venice Film Festiva...

uncategorized
TNT’s “Shattered” Gives Moral Twist to Suspense Cliches

Judging by its story line, one could be forgiven for thinking the new Turner Network Telev...

genres
Breen Demystifies “The Da Vinci Code”

Mystery critic Jon Breen, writing in The Weekly Standard, has offered the best capsule des...

manners-and-morals
Rock Stars Get Their Wish to “Die Before I Get Old”: Study

It's a truism that the lyrics, manners, styles, and rhythms of rock musicians' offerings t...

movies
Mr. Bean’s Holiday and Two Visual Comedy Traditions

During a busy three-day weekend we managed to carve out a couple of hours to see Mr. Bean'...

movies
Entirely Unnecessary Remake Alert: Sleuth

When I heard that Kenneth Branagh was doing a remake of Sleuth, the interesting but overbl...

movies
Buster Keaton Featured Today

Turner Classic Movies features one of the greatest filmmakers of all time today: Buster Ke...