Movies
Margaret Thatcher Movie, Iron Lady, is a Well Crafted Tale Worth Watching
Scott Holleran | 13 January 2012
In a culture that fetishizes powerful women instead of admiring them for themselves and their achievements, The Iron Lady stands out as a well-crafted tale of a woman who merely steps in to run things because no one else is really up to the job.
In a culture that fetishizes powerful women instead of admiring them for themselves and their achievements, The Iron Lady stands out as a well-crafted tale of a woman who merely steps in to run things because no one else is really up to the job.
Captain America
Scott holleran | 11 September 2011The 9/11 parallel is hard to miss, in the 10th year since the worst attack in American history, and Captain America has a better grasp of how to fight the enemy than Clinton, Bush and Obama combined.
Atlas Shrugged, Part I: A Cinematic Go-Cart
Edward Cline | 13 May 2011The rebranding of that movie as a defensible work of art by writers who form an ad hoc but wishful consensus to give a disastrous cinematic rendition of Ayn Rand’s monumental novel, Atlas Shrugged, a passing mark has produced some curious reviews.
Cortlandt Homes, Redux: Why John Agilardo's Adaptation of Ayn Rand's Novel Atlas Shrugged Utterly Fails
Edward Cline | 30 April 2011"Atlas Shugged Movie, Part I producers Aglialoro and Kaslow have done what should not have been done: produced an adulterated product for the sake of “getting it out there,” regardless of its condition, to cash in on Rand’s growing popularity and relevance to what is going on in today’s world. Esthetically, the difference between the novel and the movie is the difference between Michelangelo’s “David” and a Hummel figurine. Or, in terms of literary accomplishment, the difference between the Empire State Building and a 7-11 convenience store.
Amadeus: A Pinnacle of Cultural Corruption
Edward Cline | 28 November 2010Literary imagination is more properly applied to Aristotle’s ought, and not to his is.
"2081": Philosophy in Motion
Edward Cline | 22 October 2010I recently watched a little gem of a cinematic parable about a Rawlsian dystopia, 2081, which depicts a society in which “everyone is equal.”
Secretariat Movie Trumps The Social Network in Depicting Capitalism
Scott Holleran | 18 October 2010Secretariat, with its arrogant owner trading in shares and vowing to her men that “we are going to live rejoicing every day” and cashing in during a glamorous ballroom dance, captures the glory of achieving one’s values.
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood: A Hero For Our Times
Scott Holleran | 1 June 2010Forget what you know of Robin Hood--that he steals from the rich to give to the poor—because this version sets the legend upright; he is an avenger for justice.
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
Scott Holleran | 26 March 2010Alice in Wonderland, vividly created, lavishly told, and voiced by an all-star cast, is worth the trip.
Movie Review: Avatar
Scott Holleran | 25 January 2010"Man is a great evil", someone declares during the 3-hour tour of Pandora. This sums up Avatar's philosophy, though, as with radical Islam, it's really Western Man that is regarded as evil.
Dollars and Crosses
- Salsman on Conservatives Mixing of Religion and Politics
- Jump Start Your Thinking Complimentary Teleclass February 16
- Blame Big Government, Not Big Banks
- Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
