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Pop Culture’s Impact on a Three Year Old

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If you don’t think working in the cultural influence professions is important when it comes to shaping the next [...]



Noteworthy

Mainstream critics' hostility toward The Blind Side is shamefully political, argues Doug Patton. Article here.

The new crime-drama series Justified premiered on FX Tuesday night at 10 EDT. The show, which combines elements of the police drama and the Western, is quite good and is based on a story by Elmore Leonard. Leonard, a first-rate writer of both crime novels and Westerns, endorses the show. Story here. Rerun schedule here: (more...)

Actor Peter Graves died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday at the age of 83. Story and brief bio here. (more...)

Alice in Wonderland crushed Matt Damon this past weekend—bless her heart. The Johnny Depp-Tim Burton 3D extravaganza pulled in another $62.7 million, while Damon et al. had to settle for a measly $14.3 million. (more...)

Corey Haim’s tragic life came to an end in what appears to be a drug overdose. (more...)

 

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McCarey’s ‘My Son John’

McCarey’s ‘My Son John’
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Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952) has been uniformly lambasted by mainstream critics since the day it was released—because the villains are Communists. Yet Martin Scorsese, a smart cineaste and certainly no rabid anticommunist, classed the film among his all-time favorites and wrote very sympathetically and understandingly about it. It's actually a highly interesting film, and well worth watching, very much in the style of McCarey's other non-comedy films of the 1930s and '40s, such as Love Affair and Going My Way. This clip (although of poor [Watch Video]



Omniculture

Buckley Critique »

S. T. Karnick writes about Christopher Buckley and the Mount Vernon Statement on Pajamas [...]


The Mount Vernon Statement – Well-intentioned but Short-Sighted The Mount Vernon »

Conservative leaders got together and decided, “What we need to do now is pretty much [...]


A Horror Comic About an Aborted Child Deftly Avoids Propaganda A Horror Comic »

A work about abortion easily lends itself to propaganda, either for or against this [...]


Worldviews

‘Human Target’ Hits »

‘Human Target’ Hits Action-Adventure Mark

As the recent passing of Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves reminds us, the mid-'60s were surely the heyday of adventure fiction on television. In addition to MI, there were numerous other TV series devoted to action and adventure in the decade—fondly remembered shows [Read More]

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