Filmmaker Heeds Andrew Breitbart, Charges into Culture War Fight
The late, great Andrew Breitbart famously taught that “politics is downstream from culture.” He was right, and it’s one reason conservative politicians struggle to win elections. Leftists have enjoyed incredible influence over the culture for decades with their puppet strings firmly attached to nearly every film and television studio in the world. With the massive …
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When Outrageous Satire Gets Trumped by Hamas Terror
I wrote a satirical novel called “The End of Daze” following a series of Hamas attacks on Israel in 2011. The book’s plot sprang from a thought experiment: What if the End Times arrive, and the traditional Jewish version is the true version? How will the world react to the return of the God of …
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‘Dot Conner’ Fires Shot Across Disney’s Bow
Mainstream media has long been criticized for promoting ideologies that run counter to traditional values, especially those rooted in biblical ethics. In recent years, this trend has taken a disturbing turn, with even children becoming a target of these radical agendas. The biggest content brands have introduced characters representing extreme gender and sexual ideologies across …
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Why Biblical Horror Movies Make Perfect Sense
People often forget how much horror there is in the Bible. The Old Testament, in particular, spends a considerable amount of time describing the worst things human beings do to each other in full awareness: child sacrifice, rape, torture, incest and murder. As a Catholic making “Deliver Us,” I wanted themes that wrestle with “the …
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Are Cops Allowed to Be the Good Guys Yet?
I used to run from the cops. In my youth, the boys in blue weren’t exactly my BFFs, but up on the silver screen, I was the one in the theater yelling, “Love the PO-lice!” Hollywood spent decades serving up the flawed-but-heroic big-city cop to cinephiles like me. The police officer was our modern-day cowboy, …
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Creating New Stories That Don’t Suck
I was four years old when my father took me to the theater to see “Star Wars.” From that moment, until that calamitous day in 1999 when “The Phantom Menace” debuted, the “Star Wars” trilogy was everything storytelling should be. In the past few decades, stories like the ones I grew up loving have been …
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‘Camp Hideout’ Packs Much More than Family-Friendly Laughs
Responding to desperation is part of America’s character. Desperate circumstances lent many the gumption to cross oceans. Centuries forward, these United States of the proactively desperate have made “The Forgotten Man” an icon in art and song, published research papers about deaths of despair and loneliness and created stardom out of young working men dragging back …
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