Popular YouTube movie critic channel Red Letter Media recently drew attention to a curious phenomenon: lately, Bruce Willis has “starred” in a slew of really bad, B-grade stinkers. By “starred”, as they pointed out, they meant the actor put in a few minutes of screen time. Minutes in which he
It appears that Jane Campion has won best director at the Oscars for her tedious film The Power of the Dog. Naturally the actress currently pretending to be the Prime Minister declared that Campion has put us on the world stage: Dame Jame Campion has put “New Zealand on the
New Zealand First Media The ‘Kashmir Files’ has been shown in America, Australia, India and many other locations around the world. To date the film has been viewed by over 1.1 billion people. The film is about true and real events surrounding the 1990 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in
Daryl Sparkes University of Southern Queensland I’m a film-maker who became an archaeologist who became a film-maker who became an academic. I’ve had films screened at the Maleny film festival all the way to Cannes and everything in between. As well as a Senior Lecturer in Film Production
Capitalist It was 50 years ago today that the first Godfather movie was released. The film struck a chord with an astonishingly large proportion of the world’s population (around 12% went to see it in 1972). It made stars out of Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and James Caan (hitherto
In the annals of Great Movie Franchises, the Kingsman series may not be up there with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, or James Bond, but they’ve carved out a respectable niche for themselves. Like, say, Stephen Sommers’ Mummy films, they’re at worst fun, action-adventure films, with engaging stars and
Jane Campion is renowned for making long, dull, moody flicks that are as gorgeously filmed (and as boring) as anything David Lean ever did that wasn’t Lawrence of Arabia. Naturally, they’re reliable Oscar-bait and great favourites for wide, dull, moody feminists. The Power of the Dog is no
Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection of art, culture, and ideas. Imagine waking up one day unable to access
Tolkien fans are awaiting the much-hyped Amazon Lord of the Rings tv series not with bated breath, but trepidation. Please, Amazon, don’t fuck it up, is the most frequent comment in fan groups. “A fool’s hope,” as Gandalf would say. Fans are already wincing as a domino-effect of
As I recently wrote, America’s racial Cultural Revolution is, much to their shock, now coming for America’s Jews. Worse still for America’s left-voting Jews, they’re suddenly realising that they’ve been sharpening the cultural pitchforks for a leftist progrom in the heart of the citadel that
George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book cycle that birthed hit tv show Game of Thrones, is not a fan of fan-fiction. Because, he says, it’s lazy and bad writing. “You have to invent your own characters, you have to do your
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
This movie had so many terrible reviews, I had almost decided not to watch it. But over Christmas, with not much to do, the movie beckoned and with its star-studded cast, including Leonardo di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett (not to mention the very brilliant Mark Rylance)
I’m going to have to give this movie two separate ratings: for the fans, 9/10; for non-fans, maybe a 6/10. The reason for the disparity is that this movie is the culmination of a two-decade odyssey that kicked off with Sam Raimi’s groundbreaking 2002 superhero film,
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. 2021 was a strange year for the film industry. Covid-19 closed the theatres for many months; a number of movies appeared first on streaming services like Amazon and Netflix. We’ve selected a dozen of the year’s releases
