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Why are common sense restrictions on pornography met with elite derision? Credit: Lars Plougmann The mainstream media recently purported to report a “story” when an old video emerged in which House Speaker Mike Johnson discussed his use of Covenant Eyes,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Noer says the idea for the film came from his experiences in saying goodbye to several loved ones.

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Thousands of romantics, driven to the desert. This year, the reality-television network Bravo held its third annual fan conference, BravoCon, in Las Vegas, dumping the Javits Center, its previous locale, for…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who went on the air together for the first time in 1975, have been off the air for a long time now. Siskel died in 1999,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the sixth and final season of “The Crown,” Peter Morgan, the show’s writer and creator, returns to where he began. That start is not the first season of Morgan’s epic…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “We’re a vanishing breed,” Lombroso’s grandmother told him. “So, if you want to do this, you’d better hurry.” A week after Donald Trump won the Presidency, I sat in a folding…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some of the main conflicts in Todd Haynes’s new film, “May December” (which opens Friday), are practically shouted from behind the camera, and they drown out other ones on which the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few years back, I returned from a trip to Rome with a coffee-table book of photographs of the city taken over the decades. In the months that followed, I leafed…

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World is slavish to reality in trivialities, and pure fantasy in much greater, more complicated matters. Credit: Julio Nayan How I long for a good new movie. I can only watch the good…