'War for the Planet of the Apes'

Valerie and I went to the latest incarnation this afternoon. Not awful if you take it straight, not particularly good, either.

As anti-white, anti-American, anti-US military metaphor, though, it couldn't get much more heavy handed.

White American Special Forces troops herd all-black apes into Nazi-like concentration camp, play the Star Spangled Banner, beat the black folk mercilessly, starve them mercilessly, wave the American flag, suffer attack aka civil war from other American troops who come from the North, the American flag goes up in flames, avalanche kills all the white people, and the black apes hike off to the Promised Land, free at last from white people. Just what you should expect from a Woodie Harrelson movie.

God Bless America: the trailer

Fair warning: Watching this trailer could get you arrested in NY, NJ, CA, and Chicago. And HI, of course. Don't ever forget HI.



It does seem like an argument for allowing pre-victims to carry weapons, though.

Empowered Women

Although I am unfamiliar with several, this seems to me like a reasonable list.

An Idea Who's Time Has Come

The President and his family — preferably with DHS Secretary Janet “The system worked” Napolitano — should show up at Dulles or Reagan airport on a weekday with a camera crew in tow, as airport pat downs are typically done in full view of hundreds of travelers. All of America will to see the TSA handling the President’s crown jewels. Then a rubber-gloved federal agent will run his hands all over his wife and daughter’s privates while he watches. Then I want him to turn to the camera and tell all of America that this is no big deal and we should all be good citizens and comply...

Fat chance.

Eco-Fascism

Cute. If you like blowing up children in their classrooms.

There are enough violent eco-freaks already. Why encourage more? Unless, of course, you want more.

Torn From the Flag

A new movie from Klaudia Kovacs about the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Sounds like it might be worth watching.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

This doesn't sound like a major upper, but maybe good.

"I’m a proud member of the stupid party.”

So says David Zucker in a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story about his new comedy, “An American Carol”. He seems satisfied not to be a member of the dangerous party spoofed in the flick.

Movie review: "Doomsday"

Rhona Mitra stars as a female Road Warrior in Scotland, without the distracting nuances of plot or superfluous character development.

Like the movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", it is an epic metaphor for one young majoritarian woman's maintaining her core values while learning to deal pragmatically with the social stresses inherent in a multicultural environment. Ultimately it is optimistic about the possibilities of conflict resolution between imperfect peoples.

Movie: "28 Weeks Later"

I haven't seen it, but the first in the series, "28 Days Later", was unquestionably the best British post-apocalypse inter-racial vampire cannibal zombie love story of that summer.

A.O. Scott reviews the latest offering in the NYTimes.

As Mr. Scott says: "It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."

What more could one ask for?