Publications

Pushing Tin

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

James Bowman

SLC Punk is another teen movie, but one with a serious purpose that is not lost sight of in the…

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Twin Dragons (Shuang long hui)

James Bowman

Twin Dragons, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam is a huge disappointment. Regular readers will…

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Summary of a New Study: Winners and Losers From "Privatizing" Social Security

John D. Mueller

Summary of A New Study on Winners and Losers from “Privatizing” Social Security Testimony submitted to the Social Security Subcommittee…

Articles

 

The Jew Who Is Saving Christians

Michael Cromartie

Michael Horowitz is turning Christians’ heads to the reality of religious persecution world-wide. Why do many governments around the world…

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Corruptor, The

James Bowman

The Corruptor, directed by James Foley, is a routine shoot-’em-up that briefly aspires to something higher. Chinese supercop Nick Chen…

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Cruel Intentions

James Bowman

Way back in 1976, Alan Parker had the clever idea of making use of the venerable satirical form of the…

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Deep End of the Ocean, The

James Bowman

You can see why the novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacqueline Mitchard made such a hit as…

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Devil’s Island

James Bowman

Devil’s Island, directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and written by Einar Karason is set in the 1950s in a former…

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Ed-TV

James Bowman

How on earth did Ron Howard hope to succeed where Peter Weir failed? Hubris, I suppose. Ron Howard’s done a…

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Forces of Nature

James Bowman

There are two problems with Forces of Nature, which was written by Marc Lawrence and directed by Bronwen Hughes: the…

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Mod Squad, The

James Bowman

Near the end of The Mod Squad one of the three drop-dead hip teen cops, Pete Cochran (Giovanni Ribisi), says…

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