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  • Chris Kyle and the Kill Zone: On Calling Snipers “Cowards”

    By Selwyn Duke The resounding success of film American Sniper has inspired criticism from certain quarters, ranging from the perhaps reasonable to the wholly irrational. As to the latter, there has been much sniping from the left-America Left. Actor Seth Rogen tweeted that the movie reminded him of fake Nazi propaganda footage in the film…

  • Forget North Korea: Watch Out for Chinese Censorship of Hollywood

    By Selwyn Duke Pudgy and profligate little Kim Jong-un must be swelling with pride. With the FBI now concluding that North Korea was responsible for the recent computer hacking of Sony Corporation, it appears that Kim has succeeded in projecting power beyond his borders in, essentially, censoring a Western film. That work, of course, is…

  • Hollywood Blast: Bursting Our Eardrums in a Background-noise Culture

    By Selwyn Duke “What did he say? Huh? Okay, well, pass the popcorn and put on the sub-titles.” This is not only a common experience people have with today’s entertainment; it also reflects something deeper about our culture. It’s not often that reading a Washington Post article makes me exclaim “Thank you. Thank you!” But…

  • Aurora and Romanticizing Evil

    By Selwyn Duke We may never know what was going though Aurora shooter James Holmes’s mind when he committed his heinous mass murder. We don’t know what kind of psychosis, or precisely what evil influences, he might have been subject to. What we do know is that, in wanting to be the Joker and not…

  • Guest Commentary: An Old Film with a Vital Message

    By Bruce Walker Turner Movie Classics on February 27th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film which Robert Osborne advised his audience had been deliberately put out of circulation since soon after it was released.  In his introduction to the film, Osborne acknowledges that the film’s stars and producers were first rate.  The…

  • Don’t Cry for Roman Polanski

    Yet not everyone is happy to see Polanski brought to justice. Many in France, Poland, and among the Hollywood Left are outraged that a 76-year-old man would be arrested on a 31-year-old warrant — even if his crime was raping a 13-year-old girl. Given this, I think it’s time for a little history and a…

  • Bruno: Some Dare Call It Art

    By Selwyn Duke If art imitates life, then life is starting to seem an awful lot like death. This occurs to me when I think about Bruno, the latest film disgorged by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen, known for doing mock interviews as the characters Ali G and Borat Sagdiyev, has always specialized in…

  • Bob Hope and Politics http://youtube.com/v/RWpU8sX10_4This short clip is from the 1940 movie The Ghost Breakers. If you watch it, I don't think you'll be disappointed. Ah, how I long for the days when common sense could still be found in Hollywood.

  • Movie Review: Angels and Demons

    By Selwyn Duke This weekend I saw Angels & Demons, the controversial film directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown’s book by the same name. The movie is a sequel to the equally controversial The Da Vinci Code, also directed by Howard and written by Brown. The film is as fanciful as it…

  • Valkyrie: The Real Col. von Stauffenberg

    By Selwyn Duke On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair" carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to assassinate one of the world's most ruthless and powerful men, Adolf Hitler, and topple the whole of his Nazi government. Integral to this ambitious coup…