John Nolte

As recently as a few hours ago, my buddy Jimmy Arone joined many on this site in giving Bill Maher a well-deserved thrashing. But I’m feeling a responsibility to give credit where credit is due. Maher may be a leftist

Exclusive Steve Mason Early 3-Day Estimates 1. The Hangover (Warner Bros) – $32M 3-day – $103.97M cume 2. Pixar’s UP (Disney) – $28.5M 3-day -$185.16M cume 3. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sony) – $26M 3-day – $26M cume 4.

[youtube mRm0S0__3ns nolink] — From the USA Today: The still untitled film, which opens Oct. 2, will zero in on the corporations and politicians he says caused the global financial crash. Wall Street robber barons are Moore’s new on-screen enemy.

I jumped at the opportunity to join “The Hurt Locker” press junket. The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow (“Point Break,” “Strange Days,” “Blue Steel”), has been a favorite of mine since catching a 3 a.m. Cinemax screening of “Near Dark” some

He may have further burnished his left-wing bona fides, but when it comes to winning elections David Letterman did his side no favors this week ‘joking’ about the statutory rape of Governor Palin’s 14-year old daughter. From the looks of

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of John Wayne. To honor this great man, National Review’s John J. Miller has put together a terrific tribute. I was very pleased to be asked to contribute along with Andrew Klavan

10. Listen, I didn’t know Willow Palin was 14. She was born in 1995. I thought she was still 13. 9. Why’s everyone so mad? I wasn’t making fun of Barack…? 8. I understand some offense was taken over my

[youtube j5g8kE_g-YA nolink] — To be amazed at how low David Letterman will stoop in order to humiliate Sarah Palin means we still think of him as an entertainer, instead of what he is: a leftist ideologue willing to do

The publicity emphasis around director Tony Scott’s “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” is that this is not a remake, but a “retelling” based on the original source material, John Godey’s novel of the same name. Fair enough. After

There have been liberal movies stars for as long as there have been movie stars. The list of left-of-center Golden Age-era giants is a mile long. My admiration for an actor has ZERO to do with personal politics, but as

Over the past few years, Judd Apatow has unfairly forced me into sounding like something of a prude. But Todd Phillips’ “The Hangover,” an absolutely fantastic R-rated raunch-fest, has just arrived just in time with the promise of redemption. Raunchy

Many artists long for one thing above all else and that’s a kind of immortality. They long to create or to be a part of something that will live on past them – that will live on for as long

The Hollywood adult drama is dead. Any talk of resurrecting it is futile. Nihilism and leftism killed it. It’s gone. If you miss it, get Turner Classic Movies. A genre still salvageable, though in need of CPR stat, is the

In the video below [click to play], Oscar-winning director James Cameron spills some of the story beats for his long-in-production (four years) “Avatar,” which finally hits theatres this December 18th. He wrote the script fourteen years ago, before the technology

Knowing nothing about the source material, “Twilight” caught me completely by surprise — which is the only excuse I have for falling pretty hard for a longing, dew-eyed romance aimed at teenage girls. “Twilight’s” has its flaws, but underneath the

Steve Mason’s Exclusive Early Box Office Estimates: 1. Up – $20.5M Friday … $67M 3-day … $67M cume 2. Night at the Museum 2 – $7.5M Friday … $27M 3-day … $106.79M cume 3. Drag Me To Hell – $6.25M

Director and co-writer Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell,” his first horror film since concluding the iconic “Evil Dead” trilogy with “Army of Darkness” in 1992, feels very much like a Sam Raimi horror film, but one hobbled with a

[youtube jAkO68jdswE nolink] — Lou Lumenick says this might be THE comedy hit of the summer. Nothing would be more welcome than an R-rated comedy in this genre that doesn’t resort to forgettable gross-out gags, scenes that never end and

Hollywood’s neo-blacklist against mainstream conservative values and those who believe in them isn’t an actual list. It’s worse. It’s nothing tangible you can point to, but rather a bullying peer pressure system like a high school in a John Hughes

It doesn’t happen often enough, certainly not as much as it once did, but every now and again, up on the magic screen that expresses the best and worst of Hollywood, something special happens – a moment of perfection that

In the closing sentence of her New York Times review, Ginia Bellafante damns Mike Judge’s new series, “The Goode Family” — which appears to mercilessly mock everything anyone employed at the Times holds dear — with the harshest of criticisms:

These may not be the best known or most famous of WWII films, but they deserve to be. Keep an eye out. You’ll be glad you did. 1. Command Decision (1948) – Made just after WWII, this Air Force drama

[youtube hvr3i-JWSG4 nolink] — This owned me at the six-second mark with the bumper sticker that reads, “Support Our Troops … And Their Opponents.” What’s going on at ABC? First the miniseries “O” “V,” and now this…? Is it… A.