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Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town: Steyn's Song of the Week
4+ day, 1+ min ago (999+ words) by Mel Tillis March 29, 2026 While Ruby takes her love to town, Kenny Rogers and Mel Tillis shoot the breeze. It was a Number One country hit from 1958: Well, you can guess how that turns out: A lesson in what happens…...
Class Action: Julie Christie and Alan Bates in The Go-Between
3+ week, 4+ day ago (836+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks March 7, 2026 It's implied that modern viewers might find the story they're about to watch strange, inasmuch as the world the characters inhabit and the decisions they make would be incomprehensible today. Things have changed essentially…...
Dead Man Walking: Lee Marvin in Point Blank
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (996+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks February 14, 2026 Lee Marvin had a reputation for being a great interview, obliging the press who expected the ultimate movie tough guy with more than they expected. His agent, Meyer Mishkin, said that Marvin gave his…...
Tortured: Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (742+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks January 31, 2026 (Guiltily, I must admit that I found Hank so irritating that it interfered with my ability to invest myself in his safety during the rest of the picture.) This sets up one of the…...
Dark at the End of the Tunnel: Gene Hackman and The French Connection
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (934+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks January 17, 2026 Gene Hackman was still alive the last time I wrote about him here, in a column about Arthur Penn's 1975 neo-noir Night Moves. But early last year, news broke " a confused story that was revealed…...
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? with special guests Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (108+ words) by Mark Steyn Seasons of Steyn December 31, 2025 Happy New Year to our viewers in far eastern time zones. It will be here soon enough for those of us in more westerly parts. Laura Rosen Cohen will be with us tomorrow,…...
Never Again, Again and Again: Russell Crowe in Nuremberg
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (520+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks January 3, 2026 It's a sharp dramatic move that will elicit wry chuckles and a shiver of outrage from Nuremberg's audience by summoning some evergreen anti-papistry. The only problem is that while the Concordat was real (and…...
Some New Thing: A Fistful of Dollars and the Birth of the Spaghetti Western
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (259+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks October 11, 2025 Clint Eastwood arrives onscreen with his unnamed gunslinger fully formed, in his brown suede boots and jeans, sheepskin vest and poncho, teeth gripping a cheroot. He's on a mule " a sign that he's down…...
A Trip to Space: The Right Stuff
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (808+ words) by Rick McGinnis Rick's Flicks September 27, 2025 When The Right Stuff was released in the fall of 1983 in prime Oscar season, it had been just two years since America had officially restarted its space program with the launch of the shuttle…...
The End of the World, Twenty Years On
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (711+ words) by Mark Steyn A Mark Steyn Club Special September 7, 2025 Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of my boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents. Believe me, it's not easy writing a bestseller about demography, especially when…...
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