Category: Reviews

Director Peter Jackson was just 9 years old when he saw Merian Cooper’s 1933 “King Kong” on television in his native New Zealand. Fascinated by …

Were the giants of the Gilded Age – John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan – pious frauds who exploited and bilked …

“Syriana” is about big government and big business and oil deals and terrorism. It’s about spies and counter-spies and loyalty and betrayal. It’s about suicide …

When you get right down to it, the United States is rapidly becoming just another country that doesn’t represent anything more than a color on …

Heroism and hope  Evidence of the crumbling of collectivist thought is given in “Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry …

The year is 1878. The place, Gold Creek – a mining town in the territory of New Mexico, not far from the Mexican border. The …

“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox, 2005, 136 minutes), the recent biopic about Johnny Cash, walks a fine line between greatness and imitation. It’s a …

It’s been a grim fall, with floods, earthquakes, war, and scandal. But there was one satisfying moment: the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine. The story …

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was her generation’s largest influence on libertarian thought. She was also a powerful novelist and a king-sized American personality. During this, Rand’s …

John T. Flynn (1882-1964) was a pugnacious little man (John Moser reports that he stood well under six feet and that “his adult weight was …