James Bowman
Pushing Tin, directed by Mike Newell, is a reminder that our popular culture wants it both ways. On the one…
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SLC Punk is another teen movie, but one with a serious purpose that is not lost sight of in the…
Twin Dragons, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam is a huge disappointment. Regular readers will…
John D. Mueller
Summary of A New Study on Winners and Losers from “Privatizing” Social Security Testimony submitted to the Social Security Subcommittee…
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Michael Cromartie
Michael Horowitz is turning Christians’ heads to the reality of religious persecution world-wide. Why do many governments around the world…
The Corruptor, directed by James Foley, is a routine shoot-’em-up that briefly aspires to something higher. Chinese supercop Nick Chen…
Way back in 1976, Alan Parker had the clever idea of making use of the venerable satirical form of the…
You can see why the novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacqueline Mitchard made such a hit as…
Devil’s Island, directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and written by Einar Karason is set in the 1950s in a former…
How on earth did Ron Howard hope to succeed where Peter Weir failed? Hubris, I suppose. Ron Howard’s done a…
There are two problems with Forces of Nature, which was written by Marc Lawrence and directed by Bronwen Hughes: the…
Near the end of The Mod Squad one of the three drop-dead hip teen cops, Pete Cochran (Giovanni Ribisi), says…