Contempt for Liam Neeson has ‘Taken’ its toll on me
I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career in online social justice
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Friday
Wednesday
Who’s afraid of Tulsi Gabbard?
The Hawaii congresswoman is an identity politics box-ticker, yet MSNBC has it in for her. Why?
Tomi Lahren offers a lot to the world of rap beefs
Game respects game
Sunday
Maroon 5, America 0
Sport is supposed to be an escape from everyday life, but the Kaepernick-Trump stand-off has ruined all that
Friday
We need to talk about problematic Hollywood
It’s not just Mary Poppins that needs to be brought into the 21st century, argues Godfrey Elfwick
A Hobbit-sized exhibition about Tolkien as pipe-smoker and parent
A new showcase gives us the real Tolkien – not his awful legacy
Thursday
After seeing Donald Trump fan art, your life will never be the same
Hang these in a museum
Wednesday
No, Mary Poppins Returns isn’t racist
Another piece of elite idiocy in The New York Times
Why don’t you know about Lavell Crawford?
Is it because he is black?
Sunday
Cold War is a true work of art
Cold War reviewed
Why SNL’s Tucker Carlson skit was a misfire
SNL writers presumably believe that all Fox News shows operate on the same level of idiocy — and that isn’t right
Thursday
The dark passion of Bryan Singer
Does a 22-year-old film point to the director’s alleged perversions?
Wednesday
Russell Baker and Masterpiece Journalism
The absence of directness in modern American journalism reflects the cowardice and complicity of the journalists
Tuesday
Which Fyre Festival documentary is most worth watching?
Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened reviewed
The Lego-cy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The politicization of the Supreme Court cuts both ways
Saturday
FYRE reveals disturbing truths about millennial culture
What possible contribution could this generation make to film or literature?
Friday
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch exposes the dullness of Choose Your Own Adventure books
How else could a drama as knowing and meta and arch do anything other than disappear up its own bottom?
Tuesday
Why has comedy got so much worse in the Trump era?
Comics should stop trying to be activists, and commentators, and philosophers
Sunday
A tale of a dead woman walking
Destroyer reviewed
Friday
Inside the strange world of Fox News fan art
May God have mercy on our souls
