Lee Child is the bestselling author of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “arguably today’s finest thriller series.” Its huge, and hugely popular
As redemption tales, boxing movies more than hold their own alongside war pictures, Bible epics, and tough-guy teachers who turn around
When I’m with friends, a favorite party drinking game is watching “Behind the Music” on VH1. The show usually profiles some graying rock
Clint Eastwood is arguably our greatest living motion picture director. Thirty-five years after his directorial debut in the Hitchcock
Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to
July/August 2007 -- In recent columns and articles, I have found it useful to differentiate between bourgeois individualism and Romantic
Who really wants to see another feel-good movie about a tough educator who takes on both the most violent juvenile delinquents and “the
In 1969, after working as a high school intern at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Apollo 11 moon landing, I became an astronomy major in
December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs
I have not read Epstein’s book, but he apparently sees envy as a feeling that varies only in degree, from a mild wish to have what another..
April 2007 -- A war of moral values is being fought on an unlikely battlefield: on the sound stages of “24,” the Emmy-winning Fox TV....
January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif
With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties
Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s, famously called television a “vast wasteland.” He wanted
As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the
One consequence of Hollywood’s descent into the morass of mindless formula-driven folderol was the rise of independent filmmakers. They’ve
Most people have known the story of the Trojan War since its crucial battles were so well sung by a bard we know as Homer. The Trojan prince