The Baz Luhrmann Elvis movie is as good as it is frustrating. The movie might…
Aaron N. ColemanJune 29, 2022
Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist and “woke” political and cultural…
Boyd CatheyDecember 10, 2021
This essay was originally published in the August 1995 issue of Chronicles magazine. Some folks…
John Shelton ReedOctober 12, 2021
In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…
Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the…
Anne Wilson SmithApril 20, 2021
For some time now I have had a passion for classic films, in particular those…
Boyd CatheyMarch 17, 2021
“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
21. Faulkner in Film Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done…
Clyde WilsonMarch 26, 2020
19. Our Speech The experts will tell you that there is more than one Southern…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2020
18. World War II and Other Wars “To deliver examples to posterity, and to regulate…
Clyde WilsonMarch 12, 2020
16. EXECRABLES. The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection The competition here is…
Clyde WilsonMarch 5, 2020
15. Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southerners: Films for the Family The major movie stars of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 27, 2020
12. Southerners in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries **The Yearling (1946). This is…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 20, 2020
11. Post-bellum and Westerns There are two interesting, important, and little noticed features of films…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2020
10. Spielberg’s Lincoln (X) Spielberg’s Lincoln. Life is short. Although I am a devoted if…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 7, 2020
9. Confederate Hollywood From the beginnings to rather recent times portrayals of Confederates have been…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2020
8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
5. Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) If Amistad is not yet a household word like ET or…
Clyde WilsonDecember 19, 2019
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonDecember 12, 2019
Most of us, even the youngest, have heard of the magnificent Disney film, “Song of…
Boyd CatheyJuly 25, 2019
None knew it then, but in 1915, Southern agrarian influence on the movies was at…
Norman StewartJanuary 7, 2019
Everyone wanted to be Southern in the 1970s. The rejuvenated interest in Southern music from…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 9, 2018
Not to be outdone by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s brilliant idea for a new…
Lewis LibermanOctober 27, 2017
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most lauded and applauded historians of the “conservative…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2017
From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
Most of the world knows of the Hollywood Celebrity “Martin Sheen,” (born and baptized Ramon…
Clyde WilsonAugust 14, 2017
Like it or not, movies are the main art form of our time, the story-telling…
Clyde WilsonMarch 6, 2017
Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, December 28, 2015-January 1, 2016. Topics: Southern…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 3, 2016
You might not find Stark Young's So Red The Rose in current recommendations of novels…
Gail JarvisDecember 31, 2015
Why in the recent “The Factory” does a serial killer from Buffalo, New York, have…
Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2015
Review of the new film Field of Lost Shoes: I have written before here and…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2015
The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yKesnaFYUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkcQ09h2Vo That is Bobby Bare on Detroit and Dwight Yoakam on Los Angeles. Sometimes…
Clyde WilsonNovember 10, 2014
Recent releases of four classic films should gladden the hearts of patriotic Southerners and those…
Boyd CatheyJuly 30, 2014
Tom Hiddleston, an English actor best known for playing Loki in the Thor and Avengers…
Dan E. PhillipsJune 23, 2014
(3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…
Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
(3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…
Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…
Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…
Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Having passed my allotted three score and ten, I realise that I have spent too…
Clyde WilsonMay 16, 2014
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