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...

music
Richards Stones Reviewer

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has written a letter demanding that two Swedish ne...

movies
“September Dawn” a Disaster—for Studio and Filmmakers

Film critic and social commentator Michael Medved had a point recently when he observed th...

uncategorized
Dylan, Costello to Tour Together

One of the most influential popular artists of our time will join one of the most importan...

movies
The Important Theme of “No Reservations”

With Superbad at number 1 at the movie box office for the second week in a row and not muc...

television
Spike TV’s “The Kill Point”

Season 1 of the Spike TV series The Kill Point concludes tonight with a two-hour episode. ...

commerce
Another Try at Genre-Bending

The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...

books
Debunking Economic Myths

As promised earlier today, here is my review of Alan Reynolds's book, Income and Wealth, w...

books
The Greatness of Alan Reynolds

In his syndicated column, William F. Buckley pays tribute today to Alan Reynolds, the Cato...

books
A Good Overview of the Harry Potter Books

I've seen a multitude of interpretations of the Harry Potter book series, and for me the m...

books
Dark “Oz” Film Planned

Normally I hate revisionism, but this looks like it just might work:Warner Bros. and Villa...