Sunday, September 27, 2009

"Oz" at LXX... on the XXL Screen!

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Seventy years ago, in the midst of 1939, the most fecund year the motion-picture industry has ever experienced -- a record not bloody likel...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Book Review: THE CONSERVATIVES: IDEAS & PERSONALITIES THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY by Patrick Allitt (Yale University Press, 2009)

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If you're interested in reading a history of American conservatism that comes neither to panegyrize nor pathologize, then this may be ...

Book Review: THE JOHN STANLEY LIBRARY: NANCY Vol. 1 by John Stanley and Dan Gormley (Drawn & Quarterly, 2009)

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To start on an ominous note: a number of people appear to have the wrong idea about the issue numbers and dates for this volume. The title p...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Movie Review: THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith, 1915)

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Yes, folks, it's both as "good" AND as "bad" as legend has made it out to be. Clocking in at just a shade above th...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Vhy Vasn't You Dere, Sharlie? (apologies to Jack Pearl)

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I haven't reviewed many comics-related items in this space of late, primarily because a lot of the "big-ticket" releases of th...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Book Review: THE ISRAEL TEST by George Gilder (Richard Vigilante Books, 2009)

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In recent years, the main locus of anti-Semitism has swung, slowly but perceptibly, from right to left. In this purposefully provocative b...
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