Hollywood

George Gilder interviews Ari Emanuel at COSM 2021, CEO of entertainment and media agency Endeavor, about the new decentralized media landscape powered by dramatic advances in technology.

And now for something completely different. Great Minds with Michael Medved, produced by Discovery Institute, launches today, and the first episode pays off on our promise that these podcasts will be something new, important, and exciting. Our host, a Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, is best known for his daily syndicated radio program with 4+ million listeners. Here, Michael spends twenty minutes Read More ›

I have noticed a consistent plot in the fantasy/science fiction genre over the last several years. Surely, you have noticed it too. In film after film, the human race is depicted as villainous for supposedly destroying the earth. The just-released Noah is the latest example. In the Genesis account, God determines to destroy “all flesh” because humans are willfully unrighteous. But the Read More ›

Hollywood once produced many technically mediocre movies that were redeemed by morally upbeat messages. Today the craft of film-making is awe inspiring, but the sensibility is often pernicious. Take three leading contenders for Oscars, “The English Patient,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt” and “Evita.” All three films display adroit writing, acting and editing. And all three use the bedazzling tricks Read More ›

Passover and Easter coincide this week and up to half the population of the United States may well appear in synagogue or church. Seventy-two percent of Americans surveyed by USA Today say they find God in prayer each day. His healing hand is experienced in hospitals, his hope in hospices. Victims of accidents and heroes of conflict praise his name. Read More ›