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Film Review: Men in Blue

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

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Film Review: Lost in a Labyrinth

One consequence of Hollywood’s descent into the morass of mindless formula-driven folderol was the rise of independent filmmakers. They’ve

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
TV Review: When Men Were Gods

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

Mar 16, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
8 Mins
Film Review: Barn Burner

April 2007 -- The Astronaut Farmer. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Bruce Dern, Mark Polish, Jon

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Film Review: The Elephant in the Womb

April 2008 -- Juno. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Eileen

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
7 Mins
Film Review: Something Rotten in Denmark

Beowulf. Featuring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Angelina Jolie, Crispin Glover, Sonje Fortag, Sharisse

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Film Review: Back to the Badlands

I hate remakes. They are, mostly, an insult to filmgoers. Their implicit justification is either “audiences won’t go for old movies that

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Film Review: The Ends Justify the Meanness

I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko. I went to San Antonio’s Bijou Crossroads on its opening night, and from the looks

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Review of Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the film

“Midas Mulligan,” says the shadowy figure who accosts the prominent banker in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged .

Feb 25, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Movie: Interview with John Aglialoro

Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff

Feb 15, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
The Call of the Entrepreneur

This past September, I was thrilled to see The Call of the Entrepreneur , a new documentary by The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion

Jan 28, 2011
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Marsha Enright
6 Mins
America's Box Office Boycott

One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S....

Jan 28, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 MIns
Film Review: "I Am Legend"

Down here in south Texas, I’m occasionally drawn unawares into conversations with congregants of the evangelical Cornerstone Church, whose..

Jan 26, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Escapism

You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider

Jan 25, 2011
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3 Mins
Atlas Shrugged: The Making of a Movie

was an evening to remember. On December 7, 2010, at the historic Hudson Theatre in New York City, The Atlas Society sponsored a celebration

Oct 13, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Anti-Capitalist Dreams

Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall

Sep 25, 2010
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3 Mins
Film Review: There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Martin Stringer, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciar

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Interview with Larry Elder

A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, “I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.” I always tell them I never was a....

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
10 Mins
Film Review: Americanizing Shelley

May 2008 -- I’m not supposed to like Americanizing Shelley, at least not according to the unwritten code of my profession. It doesn’t affect

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
4 Mins
Film Review: Offside

“Men and women are different,” says a frustrated soldier to a young girl who’s been questioning his authority in Jafar Panahi’s lighthearted

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
4 Mins

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