Hollywood

Marlene Dietrich’s War on Nature

Marlene Dietrich's life is a parable about growing old and being famous. Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2024

A Memory Of Locustland

Switchblade Sisters is one of the most idiotic and embarrassing movies ever made. I should know. I wrote it. Continue Reading »

10 May 2021

Once again, college students are in angry rebellion—against almost everything, it seems. I remember the feeling. But it is more than half a century since I smelled the anger and the tear gas. Here are my best recollections of an earlier time of rage, revolt, and high expectations. It is 1965, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2021

The Revolution Comes for Oliver Stone

by Mark Judge

Oliver Stone is one of America’s best directors, but Hollywood has gone too far even for him. Continue Reading »

15 Sep 2020

How China Changed Hollywood

by Mark Bauerlein

Martha Bayles and Mark Bauerlein discuss the many ways the American film industry has caved to the demands of the Chinese market. Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2020

Laughing Against the Dark

by Ron Austin

Keeping a straight face, I’m going to argue that American popular comedy has lost the virtue of hope, which was retained in the past by even the most severe satire. Hollywood has produced popular comedy in all its forms, including radio, TV, and stand-up. Discussing the most universal and lasting . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

The Kominsky Method and the Hollywood Boomers

by John William Sullivan

Unlike most of what emerges from Tinseltown, a new genre of comedy focuses not on the travails of the young, but of those in their 70s. Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2018

Decline is a Choice (Partly)

by Pete Spiliakos

Hollywood, like so many of our elites, has chosen short-term advantage over the health of shared institutions. Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2018

Blacklisted

by Ron Austin

I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally prove my blacklisting at the time. (The blacklist, after all, was an illegal conspiracy subject to lawsuits.) I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

Whose hate? Which victims?

by Carl R. Trueman

Does hate have limits? Sadly, yes, it does. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2016