I have written for the American Conservative, the Federalist, and the notoriously right-leaning Washington Times. At the same time, I have written for the Washington Post as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center which is considered a hate group by people on the right. So I can say from…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hMNzrIdoI Some thoughts on the films of 2022 now that the Oscars are a couple hours away: -Stephen Spielberg thanked Tom Cruise for saving movies with Top Gun. You can call the film over-rated due to how big it blew up but, by that standard, a lot of things are…

It might be a bit overkill for the Academy to have awarded Olivia Colman three Oscar nominations in four years, but the multi-layered ball of repressed pride that Colman plays just might be the performance of the year. The film is set in a theater in a small English town…

I enjoy Wonkette because I love seeing the MAGA crowd get eloquently skewered, but they are often very guilty of dogmatism. This comes in the form of “the subject(s) of our article are definitely racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic, and if you disagree, you are also racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic.” For instance, in their latest post on…

In preparation for a podcast on every best supporting actress winner (Lela Kedrova as Madam Hortense won the1964 award), I took in some films that claimed this award. Similar to the way we might react to an indie or foreign film, there’s an utterly different feel of this film in…

Earlier this week, various LGBT support groups wrote a letter to the New York Times making certain demands of the newspaper’s managing editor for standards to stop “platforming” pieces that are harmful to the trans community. I was one of only two people out of 32 in a certain group…

I’ve often heard complaints about the character of Meg Griffin on “Family Guy” and I wanted to touch on how the use of Meg is an example of Family Guy’s strength. For those that don’t know (READ: Skip this paragraph if you’re already familiar) , Meg is the middle child…

Kim’s Convenience (CBC — -> Netflix) Season 1- The show stars a nuclear family in Toronto with two immigrant parents and two fully integrated millennial children. …

My annual list: You can view my 10 Honorable Mentions here and all the editions of this list dating back to 2009 here. And support me on Patreon here White Lotus (HBO) –The second season of White Lotus brings us characters who run the gamut from naive (Albee); to hypocritically…