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MOVIES: George Clooney’s quest to save the world one crappy movie at a time continues. A Spanish horror plays with light and dark with unsettling results. Ed Miliband turns his hand to secret agentry. And we learn that torture can be dull when the instrument is Woody Allen’s pontificating dialogue and much more fun whenContinue reading “Beware the ideas of Clooney”

MOVIES: A left-wing porno, secular superstitions, and a scrapyard slasher. Red State Red State is a seedy little porno set in a Middle America that exists solely in the minds of MSNBC producers; an intellectually barren land of churches and gun stores and people who voted for McCain. For people who seldom set foot outsideContinue reading “God, guns, and ghosts”

The Debt John Madden, 2010 Miramax/Marv Films/Pioneer Pictures USA/UK/Hungary/Israel 113 mins Shark Night 3D David R. Ellis, 2011 Incentive Filmed Entertainment/Next Films/Sierra-Affinity/Silverwood Films USA 90 mins Crazy, Stupid, Love. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, 2011 Carousel Productions USA 118 mins ***** The Debt Liberalism is naiveté convinced of its own sophistication and The Debt, directorContinue reading “Tiresome idealism”

The mood over at Democrat National Committee headquarters might best be characterised as ‘yippeeeeeeeeee!’ First, Mitt Romney volunteered to CNN that ‘I’m not concerned with the very poor‘. Now he has accepted the endorsement of Donald Trump, loon, for the Republican nomination for President. Reports that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was spotted doing the macarena atopContinue reading “Romney wins endorsement, loses credibility”

First we had Bush Derangement Syndrome; now it’s Bush Derangement Amnesia. Democrat National Committee flack Brad Woodhouse appeared on Martin Bashir’s show on MSNBC, where ratings are counted in gender studies graduates, to complain Republicans are mean to President Obama. Not like Democrats. They were inviting President Bush out to dinner and a movie everyContinue reading “Democrats and selective memory”

Newt Gingrich is a historian. An historian, as they say in the historian trade. Which only historians are allowed to join. But not you. You are not an historian. In fact, you are probably a Saul Alinsky radical or a member of the liberal news media. Nor did you work with Ronald Reagan. Newt workedContinue reading “Newt changes name to ‘Reagan’, GOP changes name to ‘lemmings’”

Be careful what you wish for. Press TV, the demented Iranian propaganda outlet, has had its licence revoked for violating UK broadcasting regulations. Media regulator Ofcom found the channel was in breach of the Communications Act, which permits only editorial decision-makers to hold licences, after it emerged its London bureau (which was licensed by Ofcom)Continue reading “Suppressed TV”

To be a John Carpenter fan is to submit oneself to perpetual disappointment. Every few years a new movie will come out, aficionados of Carpenter’s early work will convince themselves, in defiance of both good sense and experience, that this is it; The One; the film that will reverse his artistic decline and restore ‘TheContinue reading “I’m a John Carpenter fan, or ‘masochist’ for short”