Ed Driscoll "General Electric to investors: Obamacare is hurting our medical business," Patrick Howley writes at the Daily Caller:General Electric is telling its investors that Obamacare is to blame...
Ed Driscoll $(document).ready(function() { $('.audio-video-player').mediaelementplayer();});GE takes the notion of human capital seriously.Having bet the ranch on electing President Obama (twice)...
Ed Driscoll Yesterday, Terry Teachout flashed back to a post he wrote in 2004, which noted:I was channel-surfing the other day and stumbled across Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam, which opens with...
Because I Said So
Directed by Michael Lehmann
Diane Keaton has been a major presence in the movies for 35 years now. She is remarkable not only for her longevity as a star--she is the...
George A. Romero has made more failures than successes. Aside from the first three dead movies and Creepshow , I can’t say that I am bi
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...
Speaking of Planet of the Apes movies, over at Uncouth Reflections, Blowhard, Esq. reflects, “I Graduated from a Monkey Prison.” He first watches the 1972 illegal immigration...
If The Godfather (1972) had come out a decade earlier than it actually did, audiences would have resisted it. You can imagine viewers asking: How are we supposed to get wrapped up in the internal disputes...
The Godfather is one of the great movies of the last several years, and its enormous popularity is eminently well deserved. In the first place, it is a decidedly Old Culture movie, or “movie-movie”;...
Here is the umpteenth British film that attacks and satirizes the British upper classes. So what else is new? What is new is the depths of irrationality and absurdity to which the film sinks. Here is the...
Ed Driscoll For George Lucas, Star Wars becoming The Film That Changed Hollywood was the equivalent of winning the lottery, only with much, much more money involved than what a state typically pays...
Rubin Reports By Barry RubinThe "Godfather" film coined a famous phrase: To make someone an offer they can't refuse. But in diplomacy there's the opposite phenomen: To send someone an ultimatum you...
Ed Driscoll Well, the eve of the politics of personal destruction, at least.In a recent post, Walter Russell Mead has a photo taken from Wikipedia, that's a snapshot of a fascinating moment before...
Ed Driscoll As Noemie Emery writes at the Weekly Standard, the ObamaCare train wreck is "beginning to look like The Godfather crossed with a Marx Brothers movie, a bad sign for an administration...
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Ed Driscoll Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:Recorded live at CPAC 2010:Dana Loesch talks Tea Parties and mid-term election strategy with Ken Blackwell...
Roger L. Simon Are values, family or otherwise, something we look for in the movies? They used to be - a loooong time ago. But that was before (at least) 1972 when Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango...
PJ Media If you think the current anti-war movement camouflages an anti-American sentiment, you're only partly right. Rent or buy FTA, the 1972 Vietnam War protest documentary just released on DVD...
PJ Media Rough week for the classics.Ralph Waite, a hard-working actor best known for his role as the father on CBS’ hit drama “The Waltons” during the 1970s but more recently seen...
Roger L. Simon For people of my generation who went into film as writers, directors or practically anything else, no movie was of deeper import, of greater inspiration, than Lawrence of Arabia (1962)....