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Wonder Woman (2017)

The American Conservative Staff #CenterRight #PaleoCon

Jun 2nd 2017

Wonder Woman

personal film miscellaneous While I don’t usually write on pop culture topics or movies, I am making one of my rare exceptions with this post. I saw the first available screening of Wonder Woman last night, and I was very impressed. Patty Jenkins has directed a wonderful adaptation of the heroine’s origin story, and she and her cast and crew deserve the very positive reviews they have...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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May 8th 2017

Geeks, Nerdoms, and Politics

Last Thursday was Star Wars Day: May the Fourth be with you! It is a good time to reflect on the intersection between nerd culture and politics. In particular, two questions come to mind. First, how does the nerd culture color and influence people’s engagement with and understanding of contemporary politics? And second, does interest in certain fandoms or genres associated with the nerd culture,...

Maborosi (1995)

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Apr 7th 2017

The Long Years After Failure

After the Storm, the latest film from writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda (Maborosi, Nobody Knows), opens with a discussion of the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, where U.S. figure skater Janet Lynn fell during her free skate, came up smiling, and won the hearts of the Japanese audience. Forty-five years later the reaction of elderly Yoshiko (Kirin Kiki), the mother of Storm’s central character,...

Miss Sloane (2016)

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Jan 19th 2017

Hollywood Vs. A Foreign Country (America)

Pop Culture All Things TrumpThe West WingAmerican SniperThe Last ShipMiss Sloane You might want to read Todd Purdum’s long, well-reported story from Politico, about how Hollywood is freaking out over Trump, just for the big fat gob of Schadenfreude at the top. Here’s a glistening, savory morsel: There has also been denial and cocooning, More than a few liberals report that they have...

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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May 6th 2016

America At The Movies 2016

LGBT Broken Windows MomentsN I just got a phone call from an old friend in north Texas. She does a lot of work with law enforcement, especially in the area of domestic violence counseling and response. I hope she will not mind me saying, but she’s a tough Texas chick. She called to tell me what she and her teenage son dealt with last night at the movies in Frisco, a prosperous suburb of Dallas. “I...

Trainwreck (2015)

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Jul 30th 2015

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Movie Like This?

TrainwreckWithnailSharing “There will never be an American AbFab.” This was the first thought in my mind as I left the theater after seeing “Trainwreck,” the new Judd Apatow/Amy Schumer moralizing romcom. The movie seems to think that it’s the story of a bad girl who triumphs over adversity and gets her man. It’s actually the story of a basically nice girl with...

Ida (2013)

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Mar 20th 2015

How to Make a God Movie

Art & Architecture Christianity Pop Culture DanteChristianForgotten Man Alissa Wilkinson, the chief film critic for Christianity Today, pens a smart piece for The Atlantic about bad God movies and good God movies. She points out that there really are some fine films with religious content being made today … but also some dreck. The problem is not so much with moviemakers as...

Frozen (2013)

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Apr 10th 2014

God Frozen Out Of Disney Movies

Religion Pop CultureAvenue Q A reader tipped me off to the fascinating interview Terry Gross did on NPR today with Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the husband-wife composers who wrote the music and lyrics for Frozen. This exchange, from late in the interview, is revealing: ANDERSON-LOPEZ: Well, I will say out of many experiences I’ve had Disney – the people who we have been...

Veronica Mars (2014)

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Mar 21st 2014

All Noir Is Reunion: "Veronica Mars," The Movie

FilmVeronica Mars When we talk about the TV renaissance, we should talk about “Veronica Mars.” The 2004 “high school noir” show’s extraordinary first season mixed weekly casefiles with a season-long arc—two arcs, actually. Veronica starts the show as a suddenly bereft and embittered California teen: Her best friend has been murdered, her father lost his sheriff’s...

The Lego Movie (2014)

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Feb 19th 2014

Why 'The Lego Movie' Resonates

Lego MovieThe Lego MovieTransformersBattleshipDove Evolution Like the bricks from a Lego skyscraper that have been transformed into a train, spaceship, or dog house, the newly released “Lego Movie” has managed to find acclaim across the political spectrum. According to Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress, it “asks us to consider what we’re losing out in that homogenization”...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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Jul 16th 2008

Movies are Movies

Culture Like Dennis Dale and Patrick J. Ford, I enjoyed WALL-E. I’m also astonished by its bashing by conservatives as “propaganda”, which reminds me of other subversive animated films, like the pro-spinanch Popeye or the crude anti-puppetry message of Pinocchio, not to mention the way vertically-challenged people were portrayed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Shame on Hollywood! I...

V for Vendetta (2005)

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Jun 14th 2007

Ruining Perfectly Good Movies

In keeping with a proud tradition of not placing too much importance on most pop culture products and arguing vehemently against reading political messages in the plotlines of space operas, I had steered clear of the ever–widening circle of arguments over the political “message” of Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (I should mention at this point that...

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

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Nov 29th 2006

Not Just Any Mayan Human Sacrifice Movie

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto Jason Zengerle notes that Disney is selling Apocalypto as “Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto,” and even has Gibson himself narrating a TV spot. “Does Disney really think Mel Gibson is still a selling point?” he wonders. Well, if they didn’t, they’d be out of their minds. It’s easy to forget, because he hasn’t appeared in any movies...

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

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Dec 2nd 2016

Spirits, What Have You to Say?

I watched Ouija: Origin of Evil last night, and it was a pretty good flick. But I’m still a little confused about the Ouija board’s motivation. I watched the movie because of this article about Blumhouse, a horror-centered production company making “nuanced dramas about families, class, and morality — but instead of divorce or dysfunction, they’re typically...

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Feb 28th 2016

Predictions

RoomCarolSpotlightThe Big ShortThe RevenantBrooklynMad Max Fury RoadYouthThe Hunting GroundStar Wars: The Force AwakensThe Hateful EightStar War: The Force AwakensEx MachinaMad MaxAmyTwenty Feet From StardomInside/OutAnomalisaThe MartianThe Danish GirlEx-MachinaCreedJoyMad Max: Fury RoadBirman You’ll have to wait until tomorrow for my Super Tuesday predictions – but here are my right-down-to-the-wire...

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

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Feb 26th 2016

Out in the Fields with God

“What went we out into this wilderness to find?” With that resounding, iconic opening line, The Witch announces that it may not be what you were expecting. Writer/director Robert Eggers’s “New-England folktale” may have been marketed as a horror movie, but horror is only one of its genres–and not the most prominent. The Witch is a family tragedy and a religious...

It Follows (2014)

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Mar 23rd 2015

The Walking Dread: "It Follows"

The BabadookIt Follows Sing hushaboo, sing hushaby. The Wuggly Ump is drawing nigh. –from Edward Gorey, “The Wuggly Ump“ Some of the best horror flicks explore social or psychological issues: “Night of the Living Dead” weaves racial mistrust and hatred into its zombie tale; “The Babadook” hits on grief, parents’ fear of their children and vice-versa,...

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

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Feb 16th 2015

A Left-Wing Blast at 'Fifty Shades'

Culture war Decline and Fall Liberalism Pop Culture The BodyAmerican SniperPornographyFifty ShadesPornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality The left-wing writer Chris Hedges lays into Fifty Shades of Grey. Excerpts: “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a celebration of the sadism that dominates nearly every aspect of American culture and lies at the core of pornography...

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

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Feb 14th 2015

Considering Valentine's Day

It seems impossible to get away from Fifty Shades of Grey these days. On Facebook and Twitter, as well as every news site, there are articles expressing their opinions on the film, whether they be for or against it. I don’t intend to offer an opinion of the film, but do recommend The New Yorker‘s review, as well as Emma Green’s article on the troubling abusive elements...

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

The American Conservative Staff #CenterRight #PaleoCon

Feb 5th 2015

Teddy Would Like To Thrash You

View From The Prytania Surely this has to be the most tasteless Valentine’s Day present not sold at Spencer Gifts. It’s a Fifty Shades of Grey teddy bear. Look: From the ad copy: If you want to dominate Valentine’s Day, skip the roses and send the limited-edition Fifty Shades of Grey Bear. Inspired by the best-selling book, the adult gift is specially designed for fans obsessed...

Wonder Woman

Geeks, Nerdoms, and Politics

The Long Years After Failure

Hollywood Vs. A Foreign Country (America)

America At The Movies 2016

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Movie Like This?

How to Make a God Movie

God Frozen Out Of Disney Movies

All Noir Is Reunion: "Veronica Mars," The Movie

Why 'The Lego Movie' Resonates

Movies are Movies

Ruining Perfectly Good Movies

Not Just Any Mayan Human Sacrifice Movie

Spirits, What Have You to Say?

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Out in the Fields with God

The Walking Dread: "It Follows"

A Left-Wing Blast at 'Fifty Shades'

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