The Anti-‘Seinfeld': Learning to love Rob Lowe’s ‘The Grinder’
Let’s begin by stipulating that The Grinder is great. If you’re not watching the Fox sitcom—and you probably aren’t, since only about 2 million people tune in every week—then you should. Superficially,...
View ArticleAfter all the Hype, Does ‘The Force Awakens’ Hold Up?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes to home video this week. In business terms, this means that Disney can continue making all the money: In total dollars, The Force Awakens grossed more at American box...
View ArticleA Dad’s Guide to Disney Princesses, from Ariel to Cinderella
If you have daughters, you might be able to steer clear of the American Girl dolls, but you cannot avoid the Disney princesses. They’re in movies and on lunchboxes. There are raincoats and boots and...
View ArticleCaptain America Breaks Bad
So Captain America is evil now? When last we left the world of comics, the big brains who run Marvel were busy multiculturalizing their stable of characters not by inventing cool new heroes (like...
View ArticleIdentity Politics and the Disney Princess
There’s great news in the world of Disney Princesses: We’re finally getting a Hispanic (Latina?) princess, Elena of Avalor. She’ll be coming to a screen near you July 22 on the Disney Channel. I know...
View ArticleMarvel’s Multicultural Crusade
So this is a thing that’s happening: Marvel comics is turning Iron Man from a grown-up, white, male, billionaire industrialist to a black, female, teenage college student. Last week Marvel writer Brian...
View ArticleGood Values, Great Entertainment: Garry Marshall, RIP
Garry Marshall passed away yesterday at the age of eighty-one. Over the course of fifty-six years in Hollywood, he was one of the most influential people in show business and—this is the real...
View ArticleThe Ridiculous Crusade for Gender-Neutral Toys
Christina Hoff Sommers—who literally wrote the book on the war on boys—notes that there’s a movement afoot to de-gender toys. Target has pulled the “boys” and “girls” labeling from their toy aisles....
View ArticleA Definitive Ranking of the Worst (and Best) Barbie Movies Ever Made, by a...
As the philosopher Mia Wallace once said: When it comes to important subjects, there are only two ways a person can answer. Which way they chose, tells you who that person is. For instance, there are...
View ArticleHow Wonder Woman and Tilda Swinton Became Enemies of the Left
Two items of note: First, Wonder Woman was recently defrocked of her position as an “honorary U.N. ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.” Evidently, the United Nations is such a serious...
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