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Must the Audience Share in the Responsibility?
I’ve loved movies since I was a kid.
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Playing Taps
Director Harold Becker’s coming-of-age military drama ”Taps” was released in 1981, when the Fall of Saigon and the end of our misadventure in Vietnam…
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October 2024

The Meaning of "Elite"
For most of my life, the word “Elite” has had but a single definition… those who are the very best in the world at what they do.
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The Lost Art of the Sitcom Opening
On September 18th, popular X-denizen and good friend to your humble essayist, Kurt Schlichter reposted a link to the opening credit sequence of “WKRP In…
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What Women (and Men) Want
Much of the last ten years in Hollywood can be summarized as the victory of data over common sense.
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September 2024

Where Did the All the Filmmakers Go?
Rick Beato is a musician, songwriter and rock producer with a very popular YouTube channel in which he analyzes popular music in a way that appeals both…
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How Streaming Killed Quality: The Death of Hype
And so, finally, we come to Part 3, the final installment of a short mini-series in which we have been discussing some of the reasons why the transition…
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Apes on a Treadmill: Tom Clancy Speaks
A mid-week follow-up post exclusively for my paid subscribers
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How Streaming Killed Quality: The Death of Incentives
Last week we talked about how eliminating the box office cost Hollywood one of its best sources of data on what kinds of movies their audience actually…
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August 2024

How Streaming Killed Quality: Death of the Box Office
Over a shockingly short period of time, Hollywood intentionally abandoned a one-hundred-year-old system for making, releasing and profiting from the…
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Freeze!
Hollywood climate propaganda goes nuclear
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The Politics of the Boxing Gym
I’ve been boxing on-and-off for the last twenty-five years, and very regularly for the last five as I’ve entered middle age and have committed…
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