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Emmy Award Nominees Announced, World Yawns Mightily

 The nominees for TV's Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and details are av...

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House, M.D. Set for Changes

The producers of the highly rated and critically acclaimed Fox medical-mystery drama House...

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Monk Stumbles Out of Gate

As I mentioned in my post last week on the season premieres of USA Network mainstays Monk ...

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Harry Potter Number 5 Opens Strong; Here’s Why

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had a very strong opening week at the box office...

television
“Burn Notice” Refreshes Spy Genre

  With "how to" shows being so popular on television, it was only a ma...

mysteries
Monk and Psych Return

 Tonight brings the season premieres of the mystery-comedy shows Monk and Psych on US...

movies
License to Degrade

When I first saw the ads and trailers for the new movie License to Wed, it appeared to me ...

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“Hot Ghetto Mess” TV Program Under Fire

At least two companies have pulled their ads from the upcoming July 25 premiere of the Bla...

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The Secret of Transformers’ Success

The mega-budget sci-fi action film Transformers hit theaters this week as the top box-offi...

omniculture
The Great Disruption—Is There Any Hope of Deliverance?

In an article ostensibly considering the literary legacy of science-fiction writer Robert ...

mysteries
A Series of Appealing Mysteries

The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemn...

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David Cameron on Media Responsibility

I am by no means an unalloyed admirer of British Conservative Party leader David Cameron, ...

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“Fairness Doctrine” Defeated Again–for Now

The Fairness Doctrine, which allows Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ...

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“Ratatouille” Leads Pack, Deservedly

The Disney/Pixar movie Ratatouille led in box office take over the weekend but opened weak...

movies
Live Free or Die Hard and Our Dependence on Technology

When a movie form achieves lasting popularity, it eventually becomes rather baroque, pursu...

manners-and-morals
Fired Actor Plays Race Card

Fleeing headlong to the last refuge of a particular type of scoundrel, actor Isaiah Washin...

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Prominent GOP Senator Embraces Classical Liberal Position on Iraq War

"We don't owe the president our unquestioning agreement," U.S. Sen. Richard Luga...

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Greatest Action Movies of All Time

Coincidentally timed to align with today's premiere of Live Free or Die Hard, the magazine...

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Actor Fired After Homosexual Furor Is Putting Career Back in Order

Actor Isaiah Washington, fired from ABC TV program Gray's Anatomy, one of the top-rated sh...

movies
A Cinematic Blessing

Evan Almighty, which premiered last weekend to good but not massive box office, is getting...

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“Evan Almighty” Weak at Weekend Box Office

Evan Almighty, the most expensive comedy film ever made—with an official reported co...

comic-books-graphic-novels
The Admirable Conciseness of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer topped the U.S. box office during the past...

television
The Andy Griffith Show

I don't want to leave this buried in the comments section, so I'll put this here on the ma...

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Nifong’s Disbarment, Lockout—and What Should Happen Next

The once and former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney Thomas Nifong has been...

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Media Getting Dirtier But Easier to Clean Up

The media are exposing children to too much overly sexual and violent content, but parents...

books
The 1930s Nancy Drew Films

Our friend Mike Tooney called our attention to the following passage in William K. Everson...

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Biased BBC

Not that it should surprise anybody, a year-long internal investigation by the British Bro...

manners-and-morals
Maiden of Mysteries

Nancy Drew, the new theatrical film based on the classic girls' book series (the first the...

mysteries
About That “Sopranos” Ending . . .

Sometimes ignorance helps. Not being a regular viewer of The Sopranos, upon viewing the en...

manners-and-morals
A Great Father

For those who have not yet seen it, here's my contribution to today's National Review Onli...

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Leftists’ Perversion of Free-Market Lingo

One of the clever things leftists do is take good words and pervert them to mean the exact...

books
A Classical Liberal View of the Great Depression

Kathryn Lopez, editor of National Review Online, is one of the very best interviewers arou...

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Everything You Could Ever Need to Know About Ocean’s 13

 If you liked the 2001 remake of Ocean's 11 and didn't hate Ocean's 12, you'll probab...