The self-presentation of this 35-year-old, nice, honest, and successful as he is, suggests there’s no future ahead — certainly not in playing parents to a pet.

Maybe the nice kid fit the Reagan years, when it was morning in America, but in the age of Trump, you need to toughen up and deal with the misery.

We might get rid of Adam Sandler, but we will need his understanding of providence again, or else our entertainment will turn to despair.

The Avengers, like us, have good intentions. But they aren’t really good. And we don’t really believe we are either.

The mix of hi-tech and the Wild West seems strange at first, but actually works. It’s Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ wrapped into one.

What we the people understand about life and our duties to defend human dignity is being challenged and found wanting.

It’s a song of faith, but it does not go forth to conquer the world, to enslave fans and enlist them into idolatry.

It’s not about individualism, it’s not about rugged heroes or implausible survivors—it’s about a mother, a father, and their children. All the fear stems from our need to protect what we love the most.

His new Netflix show attacks progressive pieties more shamelessly than anything available in America, and is far likelier to reach liberal audiences than anything conservatives do.

A year before the moon landing, man’s greatest achievement of space exploration so far, Stanley Kubrick gave us the first and still most impressive vision of our cosmic destiny.

Mark Zuckerberg gave this interview because he’s in trouble. Liberals who used to love him are now terrified that Facebook is brainwashing people and helping Russians steal elections.

We want success, and productive work requires focus. If you’re a rich kid micro-dosing amphetamines for school or career advantage, that’s rewarded.

She has super-powers, sure, but not even that can protect a woman from the evils of men.

What’s bad for the Oscars really is bad for America. Movies are far more important for our sense of right and wrong than we like to admit.

The millionaire lifestyle and its problems have caught up to Chris Rock, and it’s hard to find what he might have in common with people who play tamborine to his lead vocals.

Yes, America, this is a story about the legacy of black pride and the civil rights struggle after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The show, made after a series by British author Richard Morgan, is an indictment of a future where the wealthy are immortal through buying themselves new bodies.

Here we have a bunch of cowboys conducting ancient-style warfare with the help of space technology.

It is a serendipitous fact that O’Riordan is named Dolores, which means pain, because she put art into making suffering humane.

These are the best movies out of Hollywood this year. They are not happy stories, but they all testify to the importance of nobility in times when humanity seems in danger.