Bret Easton Ellis is hardly a rabid right-winger. In fact, the American Psycho author belongs firmly to the ’90s-era Democrat school of thinking. You know, when exactly the policies Donald Trump espouses were mainstream Democrat stuff. Before the party completely lost its mind. Indeed, Ellis, who didn’t vote for Trump, has nonetheless spent much of the last 10 years scratching his head at the Trump-deranged mass lunacy that’s gripped the American left. “I make fun of hysterical liberals – and why shouldn’t I? I live with one – as well as the crazy dishonest press.”
Not to mention the absolute deranged loons who run Hollywood, as well as the entertainment press. Ellis first pointed out how both have a habit of worshipping shitty movies, solely because they tick all the ‘correct’ political boxes. In this case, he was talking about Black Panther, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Why? asked Ellis. “Does it really deserve one?”
“The entertainment press and the studio is selling the notion that ‘Black Panther’ is a grand piece of cinematic art that cannot be ignored. And this notion is being shoved down our throats and we can only smile in disbelief. Or perhaps understand that this is just the moment we’re trapped in. A joke, a hoax. It’s all fake news, folks,” Ellis said.
Seven years later, we can all see for ourselves. Black Panther isn’t even in the top five of the Marvel superhero movies. Even more telling, it has an 18-point gap between critical and audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Privately, Ellis says, there is “no one out here in La La Land I’ve met who thinks Black Panther is that good as a movie”.
They’re at it again, with the latest risible effort from Paul Thomas Anderson, the leftist self-flagellation fantasy One Battle After Another. From its ludicrous poster image of a massively pregnant black woman giving her unborn child an early dose of Shaken Baby Syndrome by repeatedly slamming it with a machine gun magazine pressed against her swollen stomach, to the cringeworthy ‘money shot’ line, “It’s they/them! It’s not that hard!”, it’s obvious that this is nowt but a silly bit of Antifa-fawning agitprop.
Naturally, Hollywood and the legacy media are lapping it up and calling this stinking pile of dogshit ‘ice-cream’.
New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis celebrated this Leo DiCaprio-Sean Penn flick as “an exciting, goofy and deadly serious big-screen no – a no to complacency, to oppression, to tyranny.”
The “oppression” that makes this film so “timely” is deporting illegal migrants. DiCaprio’s bumbling Bob was in a “revolutionary” group. Wrote Dargis: “Early on, Bob eagerly follows her lead during the group’s attack on a migrant detention center where, under the cover of night, they and the other insurgents disarm the military guards and liberate a crowd of men, women and children.”
In other words, it’s an exploitation movie-of-the-week for effete liberals who jerk themselves into a stupor imagining that they’re ‘anti-fascists’.
Let’s connect the dots. Deportation is racist. Armed resistance to deportations is “anti-racist.” Deportations are “tyranny.” Even if Americans voted for mass deportations. On his podcast, Ellis called out its politics, according to Variety:
“It’s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for – I’m sorry, it’s not a very good movie – because of its political ideology, and it’s so obvious that’s what they’re responding to, why it’s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made. Because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility.”
Ellis even predicted the move will eventually be dismissed as a “kind of musty relic of the post-Kamala Harris era – that thing everyone gathers around and pretends is so fantastic and so great when it really isn’t, just to make a point… There’s a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated. And it just doesn’t read the room. You know, it reads a tiny corner of the room, but it does not read what is going on in America.”
Of course it does: “America”, naturally, being New York and Los Angeles. Who cares about all that ‘flyover country’ where the majority of Americans voted overwhelmingly to deport the millions of illegal immigrants Biden flooded into their country? The deportations that are given the mass thumbs-up by Americans in opinion polls.
But this is Hollywood: they’re better than you – and they know it.
