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My answer to this post's titular question is an emphatic "Yes," and I think there are three very good reasons for it. 1. The...

Discussing the post-pandemic box office as a whole I have focused on the U.S. box office, because of the abundance of detailed time series r...

In the second chapter of his book Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) Upton Sinclair explains his purpose in writing the ...

When I first started reading, for example, Richard Hofstadter (if memory serves the first of his books I picked up was Anti-Intellectualism ...

In the arguments over climate change it has been common for the press to refer to those rejecting the longstanding and overwhelming scientif...

All across history the view of those who sought a more just and flourishing world have, like the protagonist of a recent Oscar-winning film,...

In a consideration of David Hume I recently ran across one writers, considering Hume's notorious extremism in this respect, he asked ...

There is nothing so cheap as nihilism--and in philosophy, nothing so cheap as epistemological nihilism . The reality is that, as any even sl...

Remarking The Fall Guy 's "playing like a deflated balloon" Anthony D'Alessandro raised, and dismissed, the faintness of ...

Last year, considering the ways in which The Flash and Indiana Jones 5 in particular flopped I predicted massive losses for each--rather m...

Reviewing Deadline 's findings about the most and least profitable films of the year (and especially the ways in which the list of the ...

Deadline 's Anthony D'Alessandro recently reported that in the four month January-April period the cinematic box office in 2024 ran ...

This year can seem a fairly good time to look back on the history of film, and especially the film of the past half century. After all, the ...

Reading Justin Wyatt's High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood I was surprised by just what a variety of film he classed as ...

Deadline has wrapped up its latest "Most Valuable Blockbuster" tournament--rounded off its lists of 2023's most profitable , ...