Politics is about finding the sweet spot, the place where most citizens are more or less satisfied with the size of the government they get for the amount of taxes they pay. And conservatives are essential to finding that balance.
One of the most well-curated festivals spotlighting indie filmmaking comes courtesy of BAM and their annual BAMcinemaFest, which takes place in person at BAM
My favorite genre is the movie musical; my least favorite, the musical-theater-kid movie. Both Spielberg’s Story and last year’s other corny pretender, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, have arrived as quaint, todos-juntos representatives of the latter brand. Bright, high-pitched, and would-be weird, they come from a time when we weren’t shaken by a global pandemic that wiped out millions of the bottom and made billions for the top. Miranda had the audacity to state in a promotional podcast for In the Heights that he wanted to “transcend” (“progress beyond”) West Side Story by not making “yet another gangster movie.” Good for him.