Movies

With a long-term war in progress and threats of further terrorist attacks on American soil, is it mere escapism to go to movies such as Harry Potter? Not at all; such movies provide something just as essential to winning a war as weapons and soldiers. Harry Potter...

Once upon a time there was a vicious attack on America — an act of war — and Hollywood’s biggest stars had plenty to say — and do — about it. With the war in Iraq practically over and Hollywood liberals making themselves scarce, it’s time to put Hollywood and war in perspective.

Is it possible to take a moral inventory of our culture -- to see, in a single event, what, if anything, the most influential parts of our culture hold as the good? There is an important forum in which we take such an inventory every year at this time -- and broadcast...

Hollywood director Elia Kazan -- famous during the 1950s for "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "East of Eden" -- will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Academy Awards (March 21, 1999). The unanimous decision by the Academy of Motion...