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Rick's Flicks
The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!
It's fun and easy to make fun of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy these days, and its reliance on remakes and reboots and retellings of stories it's told many times before. There are, however, some stories worth remaking; Roland Emmerich's recent Midway (2019) was as strident and bombastic as anything made by Michael Bay, but at least it put the 1976 film of the same name, a star-studded but tedious Sensurround epic, deep in the shadows where it belongs. Like sci-fi, war films are the major beneficiaries of the digital effects revolution. Some taste and restraint are needed, of course, though they're often in short supply; Russia in particular has recently produced dozens of war films (White Tiger, T-34, Tankers, Stalingrad, The Pilot), ...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Friday May 26th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Laura's Links
The Shrinking World
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet from Swedish non-blondes to Saudi Jewrabia...
The War on Free Speech
Steyn Sues Ofcom
Happy Victoria Day to all Mark's fellow Canadians. He has a couple of fine Victorian movies here, and will have a Canadian song on tonight's Mark Steyn Show at 8pm BST/3pm North American Eastern. If you're in the Antipodes, you may prefer to watch at 5pm Aussie Eastern via our partners at ADH TV. Close of business on Friday was the deadline for the Ministry of Truth aka Ofcom to issue a substantive response to my solicitors' letter on their "ruling" against me for my coverage of the Covid vaccines. (That's their creepy HQ at right, looking like a Kafkaesque insect crawling up a building.) Instead, the UK media censor got back to us with some crappy stalling letter saying they'd be needing another week to reply. The "statute of limitations" ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Mark Steyn Cruise Is Back!
SteynOnline is back in the cruise biz, with Snerdley, Eva, Leilani and more...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Two Centuries of Rugby, Part II
Tal Bachman plays up and plays the game...
Rick's Flicks
What Should Have Been: Denzel Washington and Devil in a Blue Dress
Rick McGinnis on a hit that never was...
Steyn on the Air
Nothing Is Certain But Debt and Durham
Snerdley & Steyn on all the most exciting topics: The Durham Report!!! The Debt Ceiling showdown!!!!! Something about Hunter Biden being in trouble over his taxes!!!!!!!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Steyn's Song of the Week
How About You?
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2023 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. It's Victoria Day weekend in Canada, so we thought it appropriate to have a song from His Majesty's northernmost realm. And does it get any more Canadian than... I like New York in June How About You? Yes, indeed. That's a sufficiently Canadian song to be in the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame, for reasons Mark will get to, eventually. In this Serenade Radio edition of his Song of the Week, Steyn talks to the composer of "How About You?", Burton Lane, and explores the origins of its most memorable ...
On the Town
Non-Stop Number Ones
with Mark and his guests Bananarama, Mike Batt, Don Black, Simon Climie, Christopher Cross, The Human League, Julio Iglesias, Lulu, Artie Shaw, Paul Simon, Jule Styne and Andy Williams (plus bonus appearance by Ted Cruz)
Tales for Our Time
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first. My new book is both a sequel to and a contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic of 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda...
A Clubman's Notes
The Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
Ave atque vale
Ball's Bearing
Steyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann...
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