Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clever and pleasant diversion about having faith that the good is possible.
Movies
Movie & Blu-Ray Review: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997)
Strand Releasing's 1997 documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, is, in retrospect, a cinematic achievement. The 143-minute movie debuts on Blu-Ray on July 28. Other than a new trailer and enhanced English SHD sound, this is the same product as the Collector's DVD...
Movies: Tomorrowland Lacks Imagination
“Walt Disney loved showing how stuff works. No one in this movie plausibly would have the curiosity for new knowledge and reverence for the manmade to look twice at a futurist attraction at Tomorrowland, except possibly Laurie’s villainous character.”
The Sound of Music (1965)
Director Robert Wise's The Sound of Music for 20th Century Fox is an opulent and lavish production. The 1965 movie musical, written by Ernest Lehman, is melodic and cinematic. At the start of its nearly three hours, with sweeping aerial photography in famous opening...
Movie Review: Malcolm X
The words "...by any means necessary," conclude Spike Lee's racist propaganda piece, Malcolm X. This phrase asserting that the ends justify the means, a rationalization for tyranny throughout history, is the movie's theme. Lee capably gives "by any means necessary",...
Movie Review: Selma
Selma is a lost opportunity. A great movie about achieving 20th century progress for blacks in America has yet to be made. Selma is an example of how not to do it.
Atlas Shrugged Movie Producer Harmon Kaslow Responds to Criticisms
Devoted fans of the perennially best-selling novel about the productive vs. the destructive, have expressed disappointment in the filmmakers’ decisions. Producer Harmon Kaslow answers some of those criticisms.
Movie Review: America
Emphasizing emotions over facts, the propellant and powerful America: Imagine the World Without Her, co-written and co-directed by conservative author Dinesh D'Souza, teems with a proper American sense of life. It is limited in its power, which strongly builds yet...
Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged Part 3
As I previewed last month, the new and final part of libertarian businessman John Aglialoro's independent movie trilogy adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged, features Christian libertarian ex-congressman Ron Paul of Texas. It's a plot point that, however...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, beautifully portrayed on every level by Chris Evans, depicts what ought to be America’s shining response to evil.
Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
Written by John Ridley and directed by Steve McQueen,12 Years a Slave, based on the book by Solomon Northrup, deposits us into slavery in the 19th century’s American South. It is an excellent example of the best type of cinematic naturalism, delivering characters to...
Movie Review: V for Vendetta
An allegorical warning against tyranny.
Why The Hunger Games Satisfies
The Hunger Games is not explicitly for individual rights or any other political ideal; its power lies in a subtle grasp of what government control does to decent people.
Movie: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is part of a history in dystopian-themed filmmaking about the individual against the government
Margaret Thatcher Movie, Iron Lady, is a Well Crafted Tale Worth Watching
I was more or less dragged to see The Iron Lady and was pleasantly surprised by the movie.
Captain America
Moves with action, excitement and solid American heroism.
Secretariat Movie Trumps The Social Network in Depicting Capitalism
While Social Network holds capitalism in contempt, Secretariat exhibits a thorough grasp of capitalism in practice.
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie is Bland, Not Bold
Kirk is a playboy, Spock is tortured and everyone sounds like they’re reading from a script.
Mao: The Unknown Story
I just finished reading: Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Knopf, 2005. I do not necessarily recommend this book--not because it is bad--but because the content is so disgusting (though factual). Mao is clearly the worst monster in world history....
‘Crash’ Wins ‘Best Picture’
So Crash, one of the most philosophically objectionable movies that I've seen in a long time, won yesterday's coveted Academy Award for "Best Picture." Crash has two major themes: everyone is a racist, doesn't know it, and no one is a hero, even if they perform heroic...
Oscar Without Glamour
Why Hollywood is losing its luster.
George Lucas vs. The Stormtroopers
To paraphrase Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead, George Lucas created Star Wars and George Lucas has the right to destroy Star Wars.
Welcome Back, Potter: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A mythical hero whose mind is his means of understanding the world and whose happiness is his primary goal.
Jesus Christ Superscar
The Passion of the Christ’s theme is that suffering, not joy, is man’s proper fate.
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