Movies
CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts
How Hollywood won a legal battle while losing a cultural war
Narc of the Matinee
Director Kirby Dick on his documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated
CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts
How Hollywood won a lawsuit while losing a cultural battle
AFI's 99 Percent Perspiration
Stand up and cheer, but for God's sake don't sit down and watch, America's 100 most inspiring films.
You're Already Part of the Phenomenon
Jesus: A conspiracy vaster than anything in The Da Vinci Code
Your Right To Call Your Girlfriend Ends Where My 900-Seat Cinerama Begins
Should a theater be allowed to jam your cell phone?
Does This Fat Suit Make My Heart Look Big?
Moribund Hollywood visits morbidly obese America.
The Eccentric Revolutionaries
Banned for decades in the Soviet Union, a subversive comedy finally comes to DVD.
Sucking In the Mid-To-Late Seventies
Philip Jenkins disturbs the Carter-Reagan era's sleep of reason.
Rant: Critics in Blue Helmets
The U.N. blocks the only invasion where they really do welcome us with flowers.
Tolerance or Death!
European culture leaders should smack down fanatical Islamists. Instead, they're bending over for them.
Lion of the Desert, Fanatics In the Street
The poetic injustice of Moustapha Akkad's murder
Orange Méchanique
What twentieth-century novel was the leading indicator of the French riots?
The Second Romanian Revolution Will Be Televised
The TV show Dallas helped overthrow Ceausescu. Now gangsta rap and pop culture are driving out corrupt post-Soviet thugs.
Blockbuster Wars: Revenge of the Zeitgeist
What Bruce Wayne and Anakin Skywalker can tell us about America's political mood
"There's less and less to say"
Dylan's late-career revival owes more to his audience than to his muse
Is Entertainment Objectively Pro-Terrorist?
Britain's unluckiest novelist on mass culture and mass destruction.
