Review

Most comedians avoid joking about The Boss, and for good reason. Not Adam Carolla. The podcast giant poked fun at his new employer, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, on the latest installment of “Adam Carolla: Truth Yeller.” The freewheeling show, part stand-up, part improv, found Carolla tweaking Shapiro early and often, from his fellow podcaster’s […]

No conservative critic wants to admit that any Clint Eastwood film is less than great. Especially when it’s a film like “Cry Macho” whose strong, stoic lead implicitly thumbs his nose at notions like “toxic masculinity” while still acknowledging the tough guy cliché can be a burden when you no longer fit the mold. In […]

Again and again throughout “Top Gun: Maverick,” the naysayers in naval uniforms tell our eponymous hero that his day is past.It’s not the same...

Black Widow’s name may be on the title, but the true heroes of the 24th entry in the MCU mega-franchise are her supporting characters — a pack of gonzo Russkie faux relatives. The film opens on an undercover mission from Natasha’s youth. She’s playing the 10-year-old daughter in an all-American family living the dream in […]

There are a few obvious comparisons to make between the classic 2002 thriller “Panic Room” and Daily Wire’s new film, “Shut In.” Both movies deal with the claustrophobic paranoia of being trapped in small spaces. Both include violations by unwanted intruders into personal residences, which is especially terrifying because your home should be where you ...

With its first two small screen Marvel outings, Disney seemed intent on shutting out a significant portion of the franchise’s core audience. The

Nick Searcy attended the Jan. 6, 2021 protests summoned by then-President Donald Trump, camera in hand. The “Justified” star couldn’t have predicted what would happen later that day or the ensuing political earthquake. His documentary, “Capitol Punishment,” offers a media corrective to the “insurrection” mania that gripped the press over the past year. He also ...

In 2009, constitutional lawyer and syndicated radio host Mark Levin published Liberty & Tyranny, a runaway bestseller that galvanized the conservative movement. Now, he has published American Marxism, putting a name to  — and tracing the ancestry of — the movement that is sweeping away our rights and freedoms. As he admits, this is Levin’s longest book, because it is […]

I don’t make it a habit to reference my personal background when writing a movie review, but in the case of Disney’s latest ride-based release, “Jungle Cruise,” I can’t resist. You see, my husband is a Jungle Cruise skipper. Or he was. In college. And if you know him, you know the qualities that landed […]

From the gritty 1970s era look to hints that our hero may suffer from some sort of psychosis, it seems fairly clear that writer/director...