Dirty Harry is another classic example. It didn’t just give a perspective—it made a difference. The American people responded en masse to a film that specifically called out…
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The Greatest Conservative Films: The Magnificent Seven (1960)
People often complain about Hollywood’s alleged current obsession with remakes—including the recent remake of this one. (More on that film later.) Well…actually, this 1960s classic was…
The Greatest Conservative Films: Apocalypse Now (1979/2001)
For Apocalypse Now, as so many of my favorite Conservative films and TV shows do, masterfully pulls the “bait-and-switch”…
The Greatest Conservative Films: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
It’s A Wonderful Life is near-universally accepted as a “true” Christmas movie. But when you really get down to it, the argument against Die Hard could just as easily apply here…
The Greatest Conservative Films: Die Hard (1988)
It’s a $1,000,000 question, dividing movie fans every year: Does Die Hard really “count” as an honest-to-goodness “Christmas movie”?
The Greatest Conservative Films: Shaft (1971)
I’d be remiss if I didn’t dwell on something I hinted at in my article on Jackie Brown: namely, exactly what happened to the classic Blaxploitation movement of the 1970s…
The Greatest Conservative Films: Jackie Brown (1997)
Now, we turn to Jackie Brown, the film where he first really tackled race relations head-on. And what better way to do it than to throw back to a certain film…
The Greatest Conservative Films: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
When Andrew Klavan wrote his groundbreaking review for The Dark Knight, comparing Batman to George W. Bush, it was met with a lot of mockery. But when Christopher Nolan brought out this follow-up…
The Greatest Conservative Films: The Dark Knight (2008)
“Perhaps both Bruce and Mr. Dent believe that Batman stands for something more important than the whims of a terrorist…”
The Greatest Conservative Films: Fight Club (1999)
“The First Rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.”