By • Oct 01,2006

Remaking Hollywood

The release this fall of Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia signaled the fedora-laden return of retro noir, a sub-genre of film noir that has only had occasional success over the years, most notably with Chinatown (1974)...

By • Sep 24,2006

Truthiness: An interpretive dance

For Jim McGreevey, the truth was always whatever he could get away with. That is, until he appointed a former lover to a high level position who later tried to...

By • Sep 24,2006

A lesson of Plamegate

This Novak insider only needed publicly reported information and a dab of common sense to tell just how far off from the truth was much of the media's coverage of...

By • Sep 24,2006

Emasculated England

Somewhere along the way, England seems to have rushed headlong into the world of animal rights, environmental activism, political correctness, and other liberal nostrums.

By • Sep 23,2006

A conversation piece

Conversations with Other Women is one of those movies that are difficult to review. Much of the pleasure of watching the film, which opened this weekend in D.C. and a handful...

By • Sep 18,2006

Pre-law, pre-med, pre-NFL

The high-profile NCAA scholar-athlete is a myth. Not a widely believed myth, but at least an idea to which the NCAA, schools, and athletes pay lip service. The elite athletes...