At CinemaCon, movie studios across the industry pitch their upcoming projects to theater owners. This year's event had a bit more riding on it than usual, considering the disastrous state of the U.S. box office post-COVID and the streaming boom. Those theater owners likely hoped studios had innovative ideas for...

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Former NFL star Antonio Brown spent part of his week posting insults, racial slurs and crude remarks about former Iowa point guard Caitlin Clark – earning him an apparent block from the women’s basketball sensation on social media. The wideout-turned-troll shared a screenshot on the social media platform X that...

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Few minds in Hollywood are as odd and unique as film auteur Quentin Tarantino. Love him or hate him, it's undeniable that Tarantino's films have a certain unique flair and style to them that's almost impossible to emulate. Of his many odd quirks, the hardheaded Tarantino has long maintained that...

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If criminals have no compunction about targeting victims in broad daylight, would it then be safe to declare that that locale has a serious crime problem? Because, as a recent video shared by conservative filmmaker Benny Johnson showed, Oakland, California, had all those hallmarks and then some. Johnson and his...

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Playing both sides when it comes to Israel -- showing sympathy for the Palestinians along with supposedly ironclad support for the Jewish State -- can make the Biden administration look good for a news cycle or two. When President Joe Biden does the right thing in supporting Israel, you just...

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To graduate from being a run-of-the-mill film director to being called a "film auteur," there needs to be an undeniably unique style, form or fashion to a person's movies. Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese are all such auteurs who have earned that noscript with their own unique styles....

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It has become a common talking point from the left that so-called “gender-affirming care” is desperately necessary for transgender-identifying individuals, even life-saving. How many Americans take this emphatic statement at face value without considering the data that exists on the topic? Does “gender-affirming care” really prevent suicide? The Activists' Claims...

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Like reading a news story about a person getting scurvy, hearing about a modern metropolis getting beset by rat-borne illnesses almost seems like getting thrown back in time to the Dark Ages. But, no, this time it was not a problem afflicting an impoverished medieval village, but rather one of...

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If, as a male sports writer, you feel the need to compare a young female athlete to a sports car, try not to do so immediately after asking her to flash you a heart symbol. In fact, better yet, try not to make it about yourself in the first place....

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A company that works to give housing to "high-risk" past drug and alcohol users is the owner of a home in Buffalo, New York, where the body of a missing child was found last week, according to WKBW-TV. The Buffalo Police Department reported that the body of 12-year-old Jaylen Griffin...

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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after the pilot of a Southwest Airlines was given instructions that could have caused a catastrophe at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Thursday. According to NBC News, the pilot of the Southwest jet was errantly and prematurely told to cross an occupied runway while...

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There is always a kind of grim satisfaction in watching leftist lunatics get eaten by their own. Especially when those lunatics have recently been blocking highways and streets, vandalizing works of art, or just generally making major nuisances of themselves by disrupting people's lives. This time, the disruption happened at...

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Just when it seemed that the infinite proliferation of alternate "genders" could not get any more absurd, the bowels of TikTok have belched forth another false identity to mislead and confuse America's kids. Now, in addition to "nonbinary," "agender," "two-spirit," "tri-gender" and other even more absurd fake genders, "gender season"...

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Chicago's new plan to allocate $70 million of taxpayer money to support illegal immigrants has been met with uproar from citizens. Several community members spoke on the proposal at the Chicago City Council meeting on Wednesday. One speaker, who introduced herself as "P-Rae" Easley, spoke strongly against the city's plan....

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The cost of gasoline has skyrocketed under President Joe Biden, but he has been utterly unmindful of the burden he is putting on the American people because of his concerted war against oil, a war he proudly announced he would initiate if he won the White House. Indeed, the war...

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An alarming number of young Americans now face an intense spiritual crisis. And an equally alarming number of adults have enabled the diabolical delusions that crisis has produced. On Thursday, the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland announced the arrest of Andrea Ye, an 18-year-old high school student who identifies...

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When Iowa’s women’s basketball team tries to make it to the national championship game for the third straight year next season, one of college basketball’s top scorers will be there. No, Caitlin Clark is not coming back. Instead, Villanova guard Lucy Olsen is transferring to Iowa, according to the New...

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President Joe Biden's black voter base is dwindling. Whether it's because of his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, the enormous economic strain forcing many Americans to take on additional shifts or second jobs, or even his push to ban menthol cigarettes, black Americans are taking a second look at the...

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It's easy to see why the hype had been building for A24's new hit film "Civil War." Set in a fictional not-so-distant future, the film imagines the United States split into various secessionist factions whose battles have turned the continental states into a war zone. Given the escalating state of...

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Once upon a time in Hollywood, the world of actors was not always a cabal of cowardly socialists who all thought and said the exact same things, lest they draw the wrath of the woke mob upon their heads. Though many actors dating back to Hollywood's earliest days advocated more...

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By many indications and most metrics, it's pretty clear that Netflix "won" the streaming wars. Earlier this year, Netflix touted record growth and a rosy outlook that was a stark departure from many of its (struggling) peers. Netflix, for all of its faults and crackdowns on password sharing, appeared to...

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