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Hollywood

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Freedom

Sex, Communism, Race, and Creative Freedom in Hollywood

Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.

Kat Rosenfield | 1.17.2021 6:00 AM

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Movies

David Fincher's Mank Is a Scathing Portrait of a Smug, Out-of-Touch Hollywood

The Netflix release paints a picture of movie-industry arrogance, smugness, hypocrisy, and condescension—especially when it comes to politics. 

Peter Suderman | 12.4.2020 10:31 AM

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Documentary

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

A look at how Hollywood functioned prior to contracts detailing how much breast or cheek an actress must show to earn her paycheck

Liz Wolfe | 11.6.2020 6:30 AM

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Movies

Antebellum Is Empty Social Commentary Disguised as a Horror Movie

It's a one-note, one-twist concept in search of a story.

Peter Suderman | 9.25.2020 2:43 PM

Oscars

Diversity

The Oscars' New Diversity Rules Won't Change Who Wins Best Picture

They'll probably do more to lock out indie filmmakers than to advance real inclusion.

Kat Rosenfield | 9.11.2020 2:15 PM

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Movies

Time May Not Exist Anymore, but Tenet Does, and It's in Theaters Now

Don't try to solve this time-puzzle of a movie. Just feel it. 

Peter Suderman | 9.2.2020 11:37 AM

culture

Hollywood

Why Does Hollywood Hate Real Estate Developers?

The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.

Christian Britschgi | 8.22.2020 6:00 AM

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Election 2020

The Democrats' Miserable Week

From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 2.10.2020 3:25 PM

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Political Correctness

Ricky Gervais Slams Woke Hollywood's Sanctimony in Golden Globes Speech

"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world."

Robby Soave | 1.5.2020 10:51 PM

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Movies

Richard Jewell Shows What a Conservative Hollywood Would Look Like 

Clint Eastwood's masterful true-life drama about a wrongly accused American hero doubles as an awkward brief for Trump. 

Peter Suderman | 12.13.2019 8:11 AM

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Reason Podcast

Is Everyone Wrong About NBA/China/Hong Kong Except South Park and…Ted Cruz?

Nah, the senator's still wrong about Internet free speech, argue the editors on the Reason Roundtable podcast.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 10.14.2019 4:45 PM

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Television

Documentary About Harvey Weinstein More Unsettling Than Any Horror Movie

Hulu's Untouchable is a relentless accounting of the mogul's sexual misdeeds.

Glenn Garvin | 8.30.2019 3:00 PM

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Movies

A Violent Movie Satirizing America's Culture War Gets Canceled by America's Culture War

After outraged responses from Fox and Trump, Universal yanks The Hunt from its schedule.

Scott Shackford | 8.10.2019 4:40 PM

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Television

Summer Television Serves Up Some Femmes Fatale

Reviews of campy Why Women Kill and documentary Manson: the Women

Glenn Garvin | 8.9.2019 3:00 PM

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Movies

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Is a Nostalgic Defense of Movie Violence

It's a throwback to an earlier Hollywood era, and an argument for why movies still matter.

Peter Suderman | 7.26.2019 9:57 AM

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Film Subsidies

Deceptive Data Make Georgia's Film Tax Credit Program Look Less Wasteful

Economists debunk the state government's claims about the size of the film industry.

Alex Muresianu | 7.1.2019 4:25 PM

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Reason Roundup

Anjelica Huston on Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Shitty Hollywood Men

Plus: FOSTA challenge gets boost from state prosecutors, the trouble with "democracy dollars," and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.2.2019 9:35 AM

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Sex Trafficking

Harvey Weinstein Is Terrible. Calling Him a Sex Trafficker Is Absurd

Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.19.2019 5:05 PM

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Reason Podcast

Is Hollywood Overthinking Representation?: Podcast

The perils-and profits-of being identity-focused in business, content, and audience

Matt Welch | 2.25.2019 4:30 PM

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