Over the summer, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi — someone I consider to be a friend, mentor, and crime expert — has repeatedly downplayed the work of the greatest action star of our lifetimes: Tom Cruise. During a June 21 episode of “‘You’re Wrong’ with […]

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SALMA Hayek has shown off her Oscar-worthy figure in a flashy red bikini on Saturday. The Frida actress celebrated her 57th birthday by flaunting her sexy abs and age-is-just-a-number looks. 7 Salma Hayek hit the beach in a piping hot bikini celebrating her 57th birthdayCredit: […]

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“Good Omens 2” is worse than blasphemous, it’s boring. This new Amazon Prime show is a sequel to the amusing 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and the late-Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel parodying bad Christian eschatological fiction. In the original story, the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) […]

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Disney, our favorite left-wing corporate punching bag, is having a(nother) bad month. The company just reported fiscal fourth-quarter losses of a cool $710 million. Don’t worry, I’m sure its new woke live-action version of “Snow White” will fix things. Let’s see what the new Snow […]

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You feel it; I know you do because we all do. That deep, aching, existential pain lamenting our civilizational decline: things cannot continue like this, and we know who’s causing it. They haunt our institutions while facilitating the dissolution of our social fabric. I refer, […]

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“Man! I Feel Like A Woman” is more literal than people realize. Shania Twain, who wrote the lyrics to a riff from her ex-husband Mutt Lange, says the song was at least partially inspired by the drag queens of mid-’80s Ontario. Twain also insists the […]

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If this summer’s blockbuster based on a doll that promised “girls can do anything” has one defining message, it’s that actually it’s “literally impossible” to be the one thing every girl grows up to be: a woman. “It is literally impossible to be a woman,” […]

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“Oppenheimer” is Christopher Nolan’s greatest achievement as a filmmaker. He’s already had a long prolific career of excellent films, half of which were instant classics. But “Oppenheimer” really stands out in his canon. It will probably be remembered alongside films like “Citizen Kane,” “The Godfather,” […]

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The pivotal scene in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a victory speech gone wrong. Cillian Murphy is masterfully cast as the queasy genius, a spindly boy with troubled dreams who has grown into an unlikely and uncomfortable war hero. Addressing an exuberant Los Alamos crowd after […]

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Disney’s upcoming live-action adaption of the 1937 film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” made by “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and featuring a non-white Snow White and racially diverse, multi-gendered, size-inclusive dwarfs, is about to be another girl-boss blockbuster committed to dismantling yet another beloved […]

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It really is as if Hollywood executives woke up one morning and said, “How can we ruin another American icon? Quick, get Kate McKinnon on the line!” I saw “Barbie” on Sunday, and it was everything I knew it would be. Incidentally, it wasn’t because […]

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Image CreditFDRLST / Canva Guys, it’s tough out there. From Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate to Richard Reeves, people across the ideological spectrum agree: men are having an incredibly rough go at it as of late, as our peers continue to drop out, overdose, and […]

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The film “Sound of Freedom,” which (fittingly enough) opened on the Fourth of July, has, unlike “Insidious” or the latest “Indiana Jones” film, continued to grow in popularity and as of this writing has earned some $85 million at the box office against its $14.6 […]

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Today Universal releases “Oppenheimer,” directed by Christopher Nolan. The IMAX biopic stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb. Nolan’s film is based on the biography American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. This review summarizes the book. Nolan’s […]

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The seventh installment in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise is out, and it’s shaping up to be another behemoth at the box office. What’s particularly interesting about this franchise is how, unlike almost every other intellectual property, it’s mostly gotten better over time. Usually, the opposite […]

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The latest big studio comedy, “Joy Ride,” is a unicorn. It’s a comedy in an era where the big studio comedy is essentially dead. And it’s an Asian-American film in the era of wokeness that is not woke. At least not racially woke. While far […]

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“Sound of Freedom” follows the true story of Special Agent Tim Ballard who specialized in catching sex criminals, particularly in regard to the exploitation of children on the internet. But Tim is challenged early in the film by the seeming futility of catching criminals when […]

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Wes Anderson is known for making hilarious, if quirky and heartfelt, audience-pleasing movies. When he burst onto the scene with his second film, “Rushmore,” in 1998, he established himself as a presence in Hollywood, one with an unmistakable style and approach to filmmaking. Over the […]

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“The Flash” is unlike any other live-action superhero film that has come before. It’s intensely funny, heartbreaking, and a genuine love letter to DC fans. This is one of the best comic book films of the last 10 years and DC’s best since “Wonder Woman.” […]

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A fundamental idea of conservatism is that it is easier to destroy than create. This is why Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is a central conservative text. Institutions, families, nations, and traditions cannot be created overnight. They need time and energy to grow, […]

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