Movies

December 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Mr. D’Souza regrets

Featured image I recently came to the defense of former Attorney General Bill Barr in “They comfort me.” My post specifically addressed comments made by Lloyd Billingsley in “Thy Rod and thy staff” and pointed out Lloyd’s misleading quotation from Barr’s excellent memoir. A reader who shall go unnamed wrote me an email in response to my defense of Barr: “When you try to discredit Trump about the integrity of the 2020 »
October 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson

High and Low

Featured image At the moment TCM is playing Akira Kurosawa’s film High and Low (1963). You may want to seek it out online. It is a drama starring Toshiro Mifune as a wealthy executive who is told that his son has been kidnapped and being held for ransom. The executive faces a moral dilemma after he realizes that his chauffeur’s son was taken by mistake. Kurosawa’s films are entertaining in a profound »
September 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

A Fast Start

Featured image The Daily Wire film Am I Racist? has gotten a lot of publicity. We reviewed the movie here and wrote about Robin DiAngelo’s pained reaction to her appearance in the film here. Am I Racist? has gotten attention both on account of the Left’s attacks and from positive reviews by the likes of Jason Riley: In “Am I Racist?,” Mr. [Matt] Walsh poses as a liberal activist who is earnestly »
September 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker

You Can’t Mock Them Enough [with Comment from Steve]

Featured image Robin DiAngelo is a grifter who has made millions off a hateful book titled White Fragility. She is one of the left-wing “anti-racists” who were interviewed by Matt Walsh in the Daily Wire film Am I Racist?, which opened yesterday and which I reviewed at the link. Walsh’s interview of DiAngelo is one of the film’s highlights. She has no idea who Walsh is, and he introduces himself as “Matt.” »