Mao: The Unknown Story
I just finished reading: Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Knopf, 2005. I do not necessarily recommend this book–not because it is bad–but because the content is so disgusting...
View ArticleThe Economically Illiterate in Hollywood
It is not really news that Hollywood is still producing anti-business movies, but there is a certain irony in it nevertheless. Although these movies tap a certain envy and resentment of corporate...
View ArticleHow To Defeat the Hollywood Unions
The article below was originally published on the website of The Intellectual Activist on April 17, 2001 shortly before an impending writers strike that was averted near the eleventh hour. Now, six...
View ArticleNew ‘Star Trek’ Movie is Bland, Not Bold
As a reset for Paramount’s popular series, the new Star Trek movie, opening this weekend and directed by J.J. Abrams, is disappointing. The original NBC television series was an intelligently written...
View ArticleHollywood vs. America
“When’s the movie coming out?” I have been asked that question repeatedly over the course of seven years of book-signings for Sparrowhawk at Colonial Williamsburg’s Booksellers by eager patrons who...
View ArticleSecretariat Movie Trumps The Social Network in Depicting Capitalism
While the highly touted Facebook film, The Social Network, is the technically superior movie, Disney’s tale of a great American horse and the owner that took him to historic Triple Crown success in...
View ArticleCortlandt Homes, Redux: Why John Agilardo's Adaptation of Ayn Rand's Novel...
It was startling to see the title, Atlas Shrugged, on the theater marquee. I did not expect to live long enough to witness it. Unfortunately, “Atlas Shrugged, Part I,” the movie, has little or nothing...
View ArticleCaptain America
?Paramount’s Captain America, directed by Joe Johnston (October Sky, The Wolfman), is another good Marvel serial. Tied into Marvel’s other comics-based pictures, Thor and Iron Man, and culminating in...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher Movie, Iron Lady, is a Well Crafted Tale Worth Watching
Concerned that hers would be a distorted, doddering depiction of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990), I was more or less dragged to see The Iron Lady and was...
View ArticleMovie: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is part of a history in dystopian-themed filmmaking about the individual against the government The post Movie: The Hunger Games appeared first on Capitalism Magazine.
View ArticleWhy The Hunger Games Satisfies
For the fourth consecutive week, America’s top movie depicts a government-controlled contest in which children kill children. The Hunger Games, based on the dystopian young adult novel by Suzanne...
View ArticleAnticipating “The Avengers” Movie: Taxi Driver for Superheroes?
I only hope that the movie’s better than its advertising. It wouldn’t be the first time.The post Anticipating “The Avengers” Movie: Taxi Driver for Superheroes? appeared first on Capitalism Magazine.
View ArticleBeasts of the Southern Wild
The best of movies about poor people – Conrack with Jon Voight and Madge Sinclair comes to mind – insist that even poverty can’t destroy the best in man. Today’s glut of poverty porn says just the...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spiderman
A good movie for the Fourth of July.The post The Amazing Spiderman appeared first on Capitalism Magazine.
View ArticleTurn Left at Hollywood & Vine
Reading Ben Shapiro’s Front Page article, “Hollywood Hates Corporations, LovesCorporate Cash” (December 5th) caused me to reflect again on the esthetic, political, and moral gulf between the films of...
View ArticleMovie Review: V for Vendetta
Set 20 years in the future, the flamboyant V for Vendetta is less science fiction than social commentary in comic book style, though this exhaustive movie is not easily described. With several...
View ArticleNihilism in Cinema
How did the Left take over Hollywood? What made it possible?The post Nihilism in Cinema appeared first on Capitalism Magazine.
View ArticleObama’s Wife Ruins the Oscars
The best Oscar being granted by a politician’s wife in Washington, DC, made a mockery of everything the movies can and ought to be, especially when the politician and wife are New Left radicals intent...
View ArticleThe Wonderful Wizard of OZeroland
This column is not about citing Hollywood for lascivious solicitation on a public street. It is about the new Emerald City, Washington D.C., the metropolis of OZeroland. I herewith present a précis of...
View ArticleBanal Grunge: Orange Is the New Black
Fifty shades of banality are the new heights.The post Banal Grunge: Orange Is the New Black appeared first on Capitalism Magazine.
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