The 80th Academy Awards ceremony yielded its highest honours to my favourite film of 2007, the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men:
Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, considered the frontrunner going into the ceremony, lived up to expectations, racking up a leading four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay […]

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Dear friends,
I write because I see that your Paragon of Reasoning, Morgan Spurlock - the man who finally leaked to the world hard evidence of the villainous evil of Ronald McDonald - Morgan Spurlock - the man who proved for once and for all that fast food is fundamentally, inherently, horribly depraved - Morgan Spurlock […]

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Both are compared and analysed in an article published today by Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason. I love this show. Since the very first minutes of the very first series, I’ve been hooked on Lost. It’s the best-written, best-produced mythology of the past decade, and it has certainly seemed to appeal […]

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I’m doing an awful job of finding time to blog: hopefully later today I’ll have something more substantial to share with you all. It’s not for lack of thoughts or lack of material, that’s for sure: there is much to be discussed, as Stephen is doing a superb job of demonstrating, and I’ll […]

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I almost missed my chance to see this movie in theatres, because life was so busy when the movie was released five weeks ago that it came and went before I had the chance. But since I first heard about it, No Country has been nominated for four Golden Globes and eighteen other awards, […]

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The Golden Compass (IMDB) is the film version of the first novel in Philip Pullman’s acclaimed trilogy, His Dark Materials. It’s a family fantasy starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and is set to be released a week from Friday across the United States. But there’s a controversy. Some people don’t want you […]

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We’ll soon be treated to another fine example of Michael Mooreon’s filmmaking when Sicko is released to theaters across America at the end of next month. The movie is about how horrible American healthcare is, and how great universal healthcare (taxpayer funded, free at point-of-use) would be in comparison. When celluloid is your […]

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In this blog, I wrote in August 2005 about a conversation I had with a Christian conservative. The post was titled Conservatives And Movies, and during this riveting conversation, this Christian conservative told me that he would only watch films that are appropriate for his teenage daughter to see. For him, the measure […]

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Today sees the release of a movie called Fast Food Nation, based on the 2001 book by Eric Schlosser of the same name. If you’ve ever read this book, you’ll know what irritates me about it.
Like other leftist dross in the same vein, it’s dressed up as ‘investigative reporting’ - an ‘examination’ - of […]

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While we prefer to keep this blog focused on the issues, there is room here to spotlight an upcoming project that I’m personally very excited about. It seems that, after a wait of 33 years since the idea first surfaced, Ayn Rand’s classic novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is going to the big screen - not […]

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