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Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer is a journalist, columnist for VDARE.com, and founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals. Steve blogs regularly at isteve and has recently published his first book, America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance.

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling

Hollywood

Blue Valentine and the Decline of Men

Steve Sailer

Blue Valentine, a superbly acted indie drama about a middle-class nurse falling out of lov...

Hollywood

A Miserable Slog Called Biutiful

Steve Sailer

Who's the leading leading man these days? Having sat through all 147 dolorous minutes of ...

Charles Portis and John Wayne

Hollywood

The New “True Grit”: Truer to the Portis Novel

Steve Sailer

The Coen Brothers" devotion to odd vernaculars has contributed to their haphazard box-...

Hollywood

Casino Jack: Homo Conman Politicus

Steve Sailer

Casino Jack is a consistently amusing biopic starring Kevin Spacey as the manic, bull-neck...

Hollywood

The Fighting Irish

Steve Sailer

On Friday, I was shocked like the rest of America to learn that Richard Nixon had been tap...

Hollywood

Black Swan: Hysterical, But Not Necessarily Funny

Steve Sailer

What's the most demanding sport? A 1975 Journal of Sports Medicine study by James Nicholas...

Hollywood

The King’s S-S-Speech

Steve Sailer

In outline, The King's Speech sounds like a Wayans Brothers spoof of a Weinstein Brothers ...

Harry Potter

Hollywood

J. K. Rowling: Britain’s Most Important Cultural Conservative

Steve Sailer

Kids these days have short attention spans. Or so I"ve often been informed. For examp...

Hollywood

127 Hours of Hollywood Hokum

Steve Sailer

The exuberant 127 Hours, Director Danny Boyle's first movie since winning the Best Picture...

Film and Society

Four Lions: Truth is Even More Retarded Than Fiction

Steve Sailer

In WWII and the Cold War, we faced enemies the caliber of Wernher von Braun and Andrei Sak...

Hollywood

Inside Job Documentary Passes

Steve Sailer

Typical documentaries, such as Waiting for "Superman" and Freakonomics, are made b...

Hollywood

Freakonomics

Steve Sailer

The new documentary Freakonomics harkens back to the good old days of 2005. Remember when ...

Film and Society

Clint Eastwood’s Career Enters the Hereafter

Steve Sailer

Baseball statistician Bill James's most sobering discovery is that players peak at such a ...

Over the Hill

Oliver Stone: Older, Wiser, and Worse

Steve Sailer

A cinematic development I hadn"t expected is Oliver Stone evolving into a director who...

Film and Society

Beyond the Hubbub of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network

Steve Sailer

In the Internet Age, an increasing fraction of media "content" is generated by you...

Film and Society

Guggenheim’s Waiting for “Superman” is Shoddy Filmmaking at Best

Steve Sailer

Davis Guggenheim's much-publicized documentary with the meaningless title of Waiting for "...

Hollywood

Ben Affleck’s The Town is a Perfectly Executed Heist

Steve Sailer

The Town, set amidst the fading (but increasingly fashionable) Irish-American underclass o...

Hollywood

The Great Machete Meta-Joke Fail

Steve Sailer

After the Euro-ennui of The American last week, Robert Rodriguez's Machete sounded pretty ...

Hollywood

George Clooney Hits Rock Bottom (We Hope)

Steve Sailer

Why has The American, in which superstar George Clooney plays an international hitman hidi...

Film and Society

Pat Tillman, Tragic American Casualty

Steve Sailer

The Tillman Story is a documentary about Pat Tillman, the NFL player who, following 9/11, ...

Hollywood

Eat, Pray, Love: A New Low for Chick Flicks

Steve Sailer

Four decades into the feminist era, the number one movie at the box office is Sylvester St...

Hollywood

Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys: Surprisingly Funny

Steve Sailer

Despite both a forgettable title and the fifteen years in which Will Ferrell and writer-di...

Hollywood

Get Low: Stellar Cast, Shoddy Screenplay

Steve Sailer

Get Low, a dramedy starring venerable elders Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Cissy Spacek,...

Cinematic Fiction

Farewell, A Vaguely Accurate Portrayal of the Cold War

Steve Sailer

We won the Cold War two decades ago. Do we yet know why? As T.S. Eliot noted in Gerontio...

Viva Le Donne di Berlusconi, Viva Italia!

Politicians and Showgirls

Viva Le Donne di Berlusconi, Viva Italia!

Steve Sailer

In April, I noted that television ratings indicate that sports audiences skew Republican a...

The Kids Are… Totally Overrated

Hollywood

The Kids Are… Totally Overrated

Steve Sailer

The limited-release comedy The Kids Are All Right has driven critics into paroxysms of pra...

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