"Atlas Shrugged, a mega-fable that is to capitalists roughly what To Kill a Mockingbird is to liberals"—Kyle Smith, "Rand Old Time For Ayn Adherents," New York Post, April 15, 2011…
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One of the many nice things about the new Blu-ray disc of the restoration of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is that the supplements restore to us the very first audio…
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For a moment I thought of titling this post "I Got Yer 'Expressive' RIGHT HERE, Pal," but, as Frank Zappa once said (I believe it was on "The Duke Regains…
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Those are not the words of Mr. Shane Danielsen himself, but of a documentary filmmaker from Norway that Mr. Danielsen encountered after the screening of un film de Joe Swanberg…
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"When I saw the film a half-decade ago, I recoiled from its restaged transaction beejs (of which there are a lot, with and without Zahedi’s agonized rationalizations) in a way…
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At MSN Movies, I review the two big new releases, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet and Ron Howard's The Dilemma. I am ambivalent, that is to say, partially-to-surprisingly-largely positive, and…
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