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DVD: Red – A Revealing Error

February 7, 2011 Culture

This Bruce Willis blend of comedy and action was underrated by critics and under-loved at the box office but it’s the filmmakers’ own fault, and their mistake is revealing. First, it’s basically a fun flick.  Based on a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, it’s about a bunch of aging CIA killers getting [...]

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KOC: Out-Takes

July 29, 2010 Videos

Hey, Little People!  You know how at the end of movies, they sometimes show what are called “outtakes”–mistakes and accidents that occurred during filming?  These delightful laugh-fests remind you that even your superiors in Hollywood occasionally make an error or two, almost as if their species bore some genetic relationship to that of you troglodytes [...]

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Is Hollywood “All About Money?”

June 7, 2010 Culture

[Note:  Due to time constraints, Andrew's Monday talk with Mike Gallagher has been moved to Tuesday this week.] One of the remarks I often hear from people who have never worked in the movie business is, “Hollywood is all about money.  They just make whatever movies they think will sell.”  Folks usually trot this out [...]

Tagged as: edward jay epstein, hollywood, hollywood economist

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The Sky is Blue; The List is Black

May 3, 2010 Culture

Over the last forty years, leftism has failed in every particular but one:  it has succeeded in demonizing the opposition. Leftists will blacklist you—then if you complain, they’ll attack you for whining.  They will call you racist and compare your leaders to Hitler—then if you return the insult, they’ll scream about the decline of civility.  [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Klavan, bias, hollywood

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A Tale of Two Cities

March 22, 2010 Culture

Washington  DC and Hollywood are two cities suffering from the same condition:  they’ve not only become completely alienated from the people they’re meant to serve, they’re bizarrely blind to the fact of that alienation.   Like deranged narcissists in a hall of mirrors, both our lawmakers and our culture-makers blow kisses at their own reflections, see [...]

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Me At OneNewsNow

February 19, 2010 Culture

A brief article up at OneNewsNow.com has me pointing out the obvious:  that Christians are far too often the bad guys in mainstream entertainment.  Frankly, though, I think it goes beyond that.  We are in a strange place where so-called mainstream entertainment doesn’t represent the mainsteam at all and in no area is that more [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Klavan, christianity, hollywood

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