Category: Reviews

Thinktank books tend to rumble through the mind, even when you agree with them. A scholar with verified ideas excavates evidence to support them and …

Just when “The Producers,” Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of his 1968 film, has about run its course on Broad- way, Brooks mounts another equally ambitious …

The book under review is a lively exchange about the merits of libertarian political philosophy between one of its leading exponents, Tibor Machan, and one …

“Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” the sequel to the 1998 film “Elizabeth” starring Cate Blanchett, is a tour de force of typecast characters, misunderstood historical situations, …

The story is so current it seems lifted from today’s headlines: a beautiful blond toddler is taken from her bed while her mother visits a …

Movies about strikes and labor organizers are not uncommon in film history – think of the “Grapes of Wrath” and “Norma Rae,” to name just …

As Gore Vidal wrote his foreword to “The Impossible H.L. Mencken,” he was visited by a temptress – the beck- 0ning spirit of Mencken himself. …

Nobody in America identified “film noir” as a distinct genre when those dark, crime-centered movies, dense with fatalism and cynicism, were actually being turned out …

When George Reeves first appeared onscreen as Sergeant Maylon Stark in early viewings of “From Here to Etemi- t}j” the audience laughed and gasped, “Look! …

In “Washington’s God,” Michael and Jana Novak attempt to overturn the conventional wisdom that Washington was a deist. Rather, they argue, he was a Christian. …