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Connery to Skip Indy 4

Sean Connery has confirmed that he will not return to play Henry Jones Sr. in the forthcom...

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Hollywood Politics—A Substitute Religion

Lars Walker has placed a very insightful comment on my post on recent Hollywood movies, im...

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Pirates, Shrek, Spidey, etc.—When Eccentric Characters Become Boring

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is going gangbusters at the box office, ...

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Classic Movie Channel Goes Gay

Former National Review editor and journalist extroardinaire John O'Sullivan has frequently...

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America’s Greatest Movie Star

Today marks the centenary of the birth of the greatest movie star of all time, John Wayne....

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Why Movie Characters Smoke So Much

In a comment on our entry on Hollywood censorship of smoking, Lars Walker points out that ...

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Hollywood to Censor Smoking

 The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking ...

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Movie Moms

In honor of Mother's Day, here is my contribution to the National Review Online symposium ...

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Batman Begins . . . Again

[I ran across a DVD of the movie Batman Begins recently and was reminded of how representa...

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“Meet the Robinsons” Returns to Disney’s Glory Days

The latest animated movie, Meet the Robinsons, released by Disney, marks a return to the D...

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Classic Film Alert: The Strawberry Blonde

Turner Classic Movies is featuring actress Rita Hayworth this month, and there's a very g...

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The Sexual Politics of “Blades of Glory”

Blades of Glory, the new comedy starring Will Farrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), i...

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“300” and “Ghost Rider”

Movies based on comic books, which are now called graphic novels, are so common as to be s...

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Two Robin Hoods

The BBC's new series Robin Hood, showing on BBC America on Saturday nights at 9 EDT, is al...

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“300” Movie’s Historical Accuracy

USA Today has an excellent article in which the author interviews historian Paul Cartledge...

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A Month of Mysteries

Turner Classic Movies is featuring mystery films this month, on Tuesday and Wednesday nigh...

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Is “Amazing Grace” Irreligious?

In an article on William Wilberforce and Amazing Grace in the Opinion Journal, Charlotte A...

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Why the Oscars Don’t Matter at All

The AP story recounting last night's Oscar ceremony goes right to the heart of why the Aca...

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Important Notice About the Academy Awards

The movie industry's most important annual moment, the Academy Awards ceremony, will be sh...

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“Inside Man” and the Perils of “Transcending the Genre”

 I recently got around to viewing Spike Lee's bank robbery hostage drama Inside Man. ...

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“La Femme Nikita”

In a comment on our recent 24 item, writer Hunter Baker strongly recommends the TV program...

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Billy Wilder’s “Witness” and the Pleasures of Genre Fiction

A commenter going by the cybernom of Pascal Fervor has made some interesting and  pro...

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What’s Really Behind “Babel”

The film Babel, currently in theaters, has received great acclaim from critics, along with...

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Exposing the Dark Side of Environmentalism

Concern for the environment has accomplished wonderful things since the 1940s. Both busine...

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Sundance Controversy

A comment on our Academy Awards post below asked our opinion about the controversies regar...

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Academy Award Nominations Reflect Cultural Shibboleths

The nominations for this year's Motion Picture Academy Awards were announced today, and th...

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“The Curse of the Golden Flower” and Two Ideas of Tragedy

The Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou's latest film to be released in America, is a ...

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Fathers and TV Fiction

In recent days National Review Online has published a couple of very good articles on the ...

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Flash, Eccentricity Big at Golden Globe Awards

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave out its annual Golden Globe awards last night...

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Realism and Bible Films

Surface realism is a perfectly nice thing for a movie to have, but it's a mistake to eleva...

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A Night Among Billboards

 A clearly well-intentioned movie is rather more of a rarity in Hollywood these days ...

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Rocky Balboa, Christian Warrior

Your correspondent has been very busy with other work during the past week and has neglect...

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A Christmas Film to Remember

 Tonight at 8 p.m. EST, Turner Classic Movies is showing an excellent Christmas film,...