Big Red Intellectual humility—the acknowledgement that the truth is more important than your version of it—requires you to be open-minded enough not only to listen to an opposing viewpoint...

Redbone Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, a horror-comedy take on the way black people are treated in modern America, succeeds as a hilarious thrill ride. But as a piece of social commentary,...

BelleOn Fairy-Stories Despite netting over $170 million at the opening weekend box office, Disney’s new live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, received...

When we think of super heroes, there are probably several who come to mind. There are the old standards like Superman and Batman as well as newer heroes like Iron Man and The Hulk. What do all of these...

If you’re going to the movies on a Friday night and have to choose between a historical film about female mathematicians or a thrilling action movie about a former CIA agent, which one would...

Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant,...

Don’t get duped into taking your kids to see My Life as a Zucchini. It is a false flag operation for the left’s culture war. The animated film, which opens this weekend in my city, has...

Hollywood may have gone ga ga for La La Land, but not everyone agrees it’s worth the hype. As Mark Judge points out, many have found the movie to be little more than “a dramatic facade.” But...

Another Sunny Day The emotional payoff at the end of the La La Land—which just won a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy (along with six other awards, including Best Screenplay)—could...

There’s a moment at the beginning of the new movie Sing where Buster Moon (the Koala bear voiced by Matthew McConaughey) remembers how he fell in love with theater. He is watching a performance...

“Neither he nor his parents sinned, but this man was born blind so that the works of God may be manifest in him.” The story of the man born blind from the Gospel of John as retold by Jackie...

A 2013 interview with famed film director Bernardo Bertolucci has just resurfaced and is causing widespread outrage. In it, Bertolucci claims that, for the sake of emotional and artistic authenticity...

The new movie La La Land is hoovering up nominations this awards season. Critics are cheering its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and it’s an event whenever Hollywood makes another movie...

The new film Manchester by the Sea is this year’s critical darling. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me, Margaret) the film is, according to critics , “an achingly...

MugglesNo-MajObscurus With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, director David Yates and Harry Potter scribe J. K. Rowling welcome us back into the Wizarding World—and this time, they let...

BelleBe Our GuestGaston Shortly before Thanksgiving, Entertainment Weekly marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast by publishing an interview with actress Angela Lansbury,...

  I was in sixth grade when I first started having nightmares about demonic possession. They began with a casual reference to the projectile vomit of pea soup in the 1973 film The Exorcist,...

In horror movies, people die. Not just minor characters, not just extras, but main characters—people we’ve come to know and care about over the course of the movie. This is why most horror...

I’ll confess I’ve never not been excited about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney gained my trust, and Lucasfilm earned it back, with The Force Awakens. But after the final trailer came...

Dear Hollywood, Please stop with all the terrible remakes and made-up prequels. You’ve had way too many chances, and you blew it. Unfortunately, it’s too late to stop the latest attempt:...