Apple Computer’s i-Movie continues to make an impression in the world of independent filmmaking…. At the Hollywood level, Final Cut Pro debuts as a feature editor with Cold Mountain. Who’s onboard next, I wonder.

John Podhoretz: One of the most peculiar elements of the anti-immigrant intellectual movement is just how many of its members are themselves immigrants – John O’Sullivan, John Derbyshire and Peter Brimelow from England, and George Borjas from Cuba. I once found myself in an argument with a few of these gentlemen at a conference and… Continue reading

We’re all Mac users now.

The most experienced swordsman on the silver screen? Errol Flynn? Douglas Fairbanks? Surprise. (He’s still alive.)

Lewis failed to mention the equally surprising pertinence of superficially unrealistic elements in the Lord of the Rings. Here are a few that suggest the influence of 1914—1918: the sweeping surveillance of the Eye of Sauron, the moments when reality shifts into dream during those long marches, or into nightmare in the midst of battle,… Continue reading