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"Indoctrinate U"

As I don’t equate a movie’s budget with its worth, please don’t take it as a sobriquet that young director Evan Coyne Maloney’s recent..

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Hollywood Applauds Terrorism

One would think that liberal screenwriters could concoct a fantasy about some guy pushed by capitalist oppression into open revolt, without

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
The 10 Best Films, Objectively Speaking

November 2003 -- That Tuesday morning, like most, found me staring at my computer screen. A white rectangle of Microsoft Word stared back

Aug 29, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Former KGB Officer Cites Soviet Plan to Sabotage D.C.

KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "

Jul 10, 2010
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2 Mins
Happy-Face Totalitarian Commercials

The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...

Jun 21, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
A Capitalist Superhero?

Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts

Jun 16, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
Why Are Vampires So Hot?

You might not think being an undead creature of the night is such an attractive proposition, but peddlers of pulpy fiction know better...

May 7, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
4 Mins
Silver Screen as Philosophic Mirror

Cultures, like people, have a sense of life, which Ayn Rand characterized as an "emotional atmosphere." "This emotional atmosphere," she...

Apr 12, 2010
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Russell La Valle
10 Mins
Star Wars and Falling Republics

Myths often manipulate our understanding of current events. Thus it is appropriate to comment on mythmaker George Lucas's latest Star Wars..

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Scorsese's Aviator Reflects Randian Lessons

In The Aviator, a biopic about Howard Hughes (1905-1976) starring Leonardo DiCaprio with script by John Logan, director Martin Scorsese

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Star Wars: Are the Sith Selfish?

With Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas faced the same problem as did the classical Greek playwrights. Their audiences already knew the...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Edukators

September 8, 2005 -- Another example of how Europeans and Americans are drifting apart culturally and politically can be seen in the film

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Inadvertent Observations in Denys Arcand

February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Why Is There No Money in Star Trek?

Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...

May 10, 2009
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Angelina Jolie set to star in Atlas Shrugged

It's official: Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. David Kelley, Founder and Senior Fellow of

Sep 21, 2006
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2 Mins
Treason of the Hemi-Demi-Semi Intellectuals

Description: Richard Grenier’s book Capturing the Culture skewers the anti-Enlightenment ideas embodied in many popular films.

Jun 1, 1991
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Roger Donway
5 Mins

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