As gentle as 300 is gory, this biopic, starring Renée Zellweger as famed children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, is director
“Pretty soon [the young intellectual] will announce that it is time to reject the false choices of both left and right. We must all move
Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to
Who really wants to see another feel-good movie about a tough educator who takes on both the most violent juvenile delinquents and “the
Clint Eastwood is arguably our greatest living motion picture director. Thirty-five years after his directorial debut in the Hitchcock
In the first chapter of his eleventh bestseller, Bad Luck and Trouble, nameless men hover over the California desert in a Bell 222 helicopte
The Music Never Ends. Featuring Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Bill
July/August 2007 -- In recent columns and articles, I have found it useful to differentiate between bourgeois individualism and Romantic
When I’m with friends, a favorite party drinking game is watching “Behind the Music” on VH1. The show usually profiles some graying rock
December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon
The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted
Lee Child is the bestselling author of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “arguably today’s finest thriller series.” Its huge, and hugely popular
In 1969, after working as a high school intern at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Apollo 11 moon landing, I became an astronomy major in
As redemption tales, boxing movies more than hold their own alongside war pictures, Bible epics, and tough-guy teachers who turn around
December 2007 -- Last summer’s federal criminal charges against professional football player Michael Vick for running an illegal dogfighting
Imagine you are a colonel—a highly decorated war hero—in the greatest army on the face of the earth. You savor the taste of victory as your
I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko. I went to San Antonio’s Bijou Crossroads on its opening night, and from the looks
The world of contemporary art is a big place with many contradictory movements. For anyone who wishes to be inspired by art, opening the
Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..
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