Donald Trump

Dinesh’s Stupid Movie

As much as I'm enjoying the January 6th committee's careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn't seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week's underreported story about how Trump used his "STOP THE STEAL" fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million, none of which was, in fact, ...


Bedtime for Bonzo’s Behaviorist Bent

To celebrate Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, I watched his most derided movie, Bedtime for Bonzo. We"€™ve been hearing wisecracks about it for generations, so it has to be an embarrassment, right? Bedtime for Bonzo turns out instead ...

Four Lions: Truth is Even More Retarded Than Fiction

In WWII and the Cold War, we faced enemies the caliber of Wernher von Braun and Andrei Sakharov. In the War on Terror, however, a strikingly large fraction of Muslim would-be terrorists, such as the recent Underpants Bomber and the ...

Clint Eastwood’s Career Enters the Hereafter

Baseball statistician Bill James's most sobering discovery is that players peak at such a young age (27 on average) that by the time they become nationally beloved stars, their best years are usually past. This is true in the arts as ...

Beyond the Hubbub of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network

In the Internet Age, an increasing fraction of media "€œcontent"€ is generated by young nobodies, much to the disgust of old pros, such as screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of TV's The West Wing: "€œI am all for everyone having a voice, ...

Pat Tillman, Tragic American Casualty

The Tillman Story is a documentary about Pat Tillman, the NFL player who, following 9/11, turned down a $3.6 million Arizona Cardinals offer to enlist as a private in the U.S. Army, then died in Afghanistan in 2004. The film has ...

Twilight Hit for the Same Reasons Knight and Day Flopped

Believe it or not, it's worth comparing a current box office smash—The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, a Mormon teen vampire romance—to a dud—Knight and Day, an expensive Cameron Diaz-Tom Cruise thriller parody. Knight and ...


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