‘The Hitcher’ – A Retro Road Trip to Terror
Robert Harmon’s “The Hitcher” (1986) is among the few horror films that, just upon mentioning the title, a spark of recognit…
Robert Harmon’s “The Hitcher” (1986) is among the few horror films that, just upon mentioning the title, a spark of recognit…
The man who said the most outrageous thing about the 9/11 attackers is now America’s voice of reason. Let that sink in. Bi…
Whoopi Goldberg has a simple question. Can’t we all get along? The answer is staring back at her in the mirror. “The View”…
“Conservative” art remains in shockingly short supply. For every project like “What Is a Woman?” or “Police State,” there…
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Accepting a role in the Age of Woke took on new, alarming challeges. Straight actors suddenly had to think twice before tac…
Agnieszka Holland’s “Franz” is a frustrating experience, and not merely because it’s about the life of writer Franz Kafka, w…
Variety got a glimpse of Rosie O’Donnell on late-night TV and demanded more. The site dubbed her August gig guest hosting f…
The first thing to know about writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner” is that the filmmaker is not…
Writer/director Joe Swanberg’s “The Sun Never Sets” centers around a trio of old friends living in Alaska who have a habit o…
Most celebrities haven’t a clue how to market their own movies. They’re actors, not PR professionals. That doesn’t help the…
It’s hard to feel bad for Sacha Baron Cohen these days. The mind behind “Borat” has been pushing free speech restrictions f…
Why would ABC allow “The View” to spew unhinged conspiracy theories week after week? Whoopi Goldberg goes on an unhinged r…
When Hollywood sends a message, it overwhelmingly comes from one direction. The Left. That won’t change this Oscar season.…
Virtue Signal : “The sharing of one’s point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garne…
Robert Aldrich’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962) somehow remains in the zeitgeist, both as a reference to a certain…