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Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler’s latest film, is a hardboiled, slow-burning neo-noir crime thriller that examines the plight of white men in modern America and the circumstances under which ordinary men are driven to crime. It further establishes Zahler (Bone Tomahawk [2015], Brawl in Cell Block 99 [2017]) as a highly talented filmmaker who is willing to take creative risks and deal with controversial ideas.

Published: April 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, Dragged Across Concrete. S. Craig Zahler, Mel Gibson, North American New Right, originals, Vince Vaughan | 11 Responses

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Captain Marvel: A Review

Robert Hampton

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America has to once again endure a terrible, big-budget girl power film from Hollywood.

Captain Marvel is receiving much praise from critics and journalists as the first feminist superhero movie. The Marvel film, starring Brie Larson as the titular female superhero, has been propelled by non-stop propaganda. Multiple movie theaters made Captain Marvel the only film they would play last weekend. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Captain Marvel, feminism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Robert Hampton | 6 Responses

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Glass

Trevor Lynch

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M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass is a sequel to two of his films, Unbreakable (2000), which is my favorite of his works, and Split (2016), which I found to be quite unpleasant, although I must concede that it is brilliantly acted in the lead role(s) by James McEvoy.

Unbreakable is a deeply moving film about how David Dunn (Bruce Willis)—once a brilliant college athlete who has been emasculated by his wife, an overprotective physical therapist—discovers that he is not an ordinary man. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Glass, M. Night Shyamalan, North American New Right, reprints, superheroes, Trevor Lynch, Unbreakable | Comments closed

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Age of Cringe:
Alt-Right: Age of Rage

Trevor Lynch

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Based on a few clips, I was certain that Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018) would lead to permanent physical damage from sheer cringiness. But I was delighted to have been proven wrong. This is a remarkably fair-minded documentary. On balance, though, I think it will be good for white identity politics. Age of Rage was directed by Adam Bhala Lough, an American of partial South Asian descent.

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“Hotter than Georgia asphalt”
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart

Trevor Lynch

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Wild at Heart is not David Lynch’s best movie, but it is my favorite. I would argue, for instance, that Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, and The Straight Story are all better films. But for some reason they do not call me back year after year like Wild at Heart.

Wild at Heart was released in the summer of 1990, when Lynch was riding high on Twin Peaks mania. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival, albeit over vocal protests. Read more …

Published: February 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime, David Lynch, individualism, Kali Yuga, liberalism, narcissism, North American New Right, Plato, religion, reprints, sexual liberation, thumos, Trevor Lynch, wasteland, Wild at Heart | Comments closed

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Three Identical Strangers

Trevor Lynch

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Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary directed by Tim Wardle. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling. You can now watch it online at Amazon.com.

The documentary tells the story of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, identical triplets who were separated shortly after birth. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged blank slatism, David Kellman, Edward Galland, environmental determinism, genetic determinism, genetic similarity theory, identical siblings, North American New Right, reprints, Robert Shafran, Three Identical Strangers, Tim Wardle, Trevor Lynch, twin studies | Comments closed

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Krampus: A Reminder of Winter

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Imagine this. It’s 3 in the afternoon. You’re lying in bed with your wife. You’re watching a Christmas movie. Suddenly you understand at the same time the purpose of family, the absurdity of reward without punishment and the naivety of European man who thought he could live as a goofy creature of materialism while shutting out from himself the darkness of existence. You think back to some boomer or tradcon or whatever bellyaching about how muh leftists are trying to take the Christ out of Christmas and make it ‘just some holiday about snow.’ Read more …

Published: January 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christmas, family, Krampus, mythology, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, Odin, originals North American New Right, Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, winter | Comments closed

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Bernardo Bertolucci & The Conformist

Margot Metroland

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Reputation-wise, Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) missed a good bet by not dying a quarter-century ago, rather than lingering on for years of illness and diminishing fame. Orson Welles spent his lengthy dotage introducing himself to new generations as a pitchman for Paul Masson wine, and that seemed pretty sad, but at least people knew who he was. When the equally talented Bertolucci died on November 26, he had almost no public profile at all. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1900, Alberto Moravia, Bernardo Bertolucci, fascism, films, Francis Ford Coppola, Last Tango in Paris, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, The Conformist, The Last Emperor | Comments closed

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Eraserhead:
A Gnostic Anti-Sex Film

Trevor Lynch

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David Lynch’s first movie Eraserhead (1977) combines surrealism, low-budget horror, and black comedy. It rapidly became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and provided endless fodder for coffee-house intellectuals and academic film theorists.

Eraserhead is quite simply a gnostic anti-sex film. The film is premised on a gnostic dualism, which holds that the material world—including sex and childbearing—is fundamentally evil, Read more …

Published: December 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-natalism, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Gnosticism, North American New Right, originals, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Children of Men

Trevor Lynch

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Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) is loosely based on P. D. James’ 1992 novel of the same name. Cuarón is solidly Leftist, but Children of Men seems more and more like a Right-wing vision of dystopia with each passing year. (Cuarón’s 2001 film Y Tu Mamá También, is basically Marxist propaganda and soft-core porn, but his 2013 hit Gravity could be seen as an argument against putting women in the military or space, although I don’t think this was the director’s intention.) Read more …

Published: December 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men, demographics, dystopian fiction, North American New Right, originals, P. D. James, Trevor Lynch, white extinction | Comments closed

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Alex Graham

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the latest installment in the ever-expanding Wizarding World franchise and the second film of the Fantastic Beasts series. Much like Peter Jackson’s bloated Hobbit trilogy, the Fantastic Beasts franchise is an unapologetic cash grab and will sprawl across five films, approaching the length of the original Harry Potter series.

Published: November 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Adolf Hitler, Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, fantasy literature, implicit whiteness, J. K. Rowling, North American New Right, originals, political correctness | Comments closed

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The Sci-Fi Channel’s Dune & Children of Dune

Trevor Lynch

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David Lynch’s Dune (1984) is a flawed masterpiece. When I first saw it, I was deeply disappointed. Frank Herbert’s original novel made a powerful impression on me. I could see Herbert’s world, and Lynch’s vision was not my vision. But when my initial impression faded and I returned to Lynch’s film with an open mind, I found it immensely imaginative and compelling. Even the score by Toto managed to grow on me. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Children of Dune, David Lynch, Dune, Dune Messiah, eugenics, Frank Herbert, freedom, North American New Right, originals, science fiction, Trevor Lynch, TV reviews | Comments closed

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We’re All Jets Now:
The Racial Politics of West Side Story

Travis LeBlanc

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So Stephen Spielberg is remaking West Side Story.

Let me guess, Stephen. You believe that in the era of Trump, this classic tale of nativists versus immigrants — and about how “we should all just get along because we really aren’t all that different when you really think about it” — is more relevant than ever. Did I guess right, Stephen? Did I?

Published: October 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged All in the Family, basketball, gangs, Leonard Bernstein, North American New Right, originals, Romeo and Juliet, Stephen Sondheim, the Jewish question, Travis LeBlanc, West Side Story, white dispossession, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto

Alex Graham

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Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is set in present-day Los Tuxtlas, Mexico in the year 1511 and depicts the final days of Maya civilization through the eyes of a man named Jaguar Paw. The main theme of the film is summarized by the Will Durant quote displayed at the beginning: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it destroys itself from within.”

Apocalypto is hard to find: Read more …

Published: October 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Apocalypto, cyclical history, decadence, Mayans, Mel Gibson, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

Greg Johnson

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German translation here

Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director.

Published: August 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Leni Riefenstahl, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Trevor Lynch

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I loved 2015’s Jurassic World, the reboot of the Jurassic Park “franchise” starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, directed by Colin Trevorrow, and co-authored by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. Jurassic World blew away the Jurassic Park films. It is highly entertaining and also surprisingly wholesome. Along with the main attractions, the dinosaurs, Jurassic World is pro-masculine, anti-feminist, and pro-family, with an overwhelmingly white cast and virtually no political correctness. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Chris Pratt, family, feminism, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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The Incredibles 2

Spencer J. Quinn

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Appreciating Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 really is all about perspective, and that perspective comes only after experiencing the giddy nirvana of watching the first Incredibles movie. Going into the sequel, I was prepared to forgive it for not quite living up to the original, but would not forgive if it did not remain true to the spirit of the original. I’m fairly easy to please in this regard given that the spirit of the original was such a unique and wonderful thing. Read more …

Published: June 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged feminism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, superheroes, The Incredibles, The Incredibles 2 | Comments closed

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Céline Goes Hollywood

Margot Metroland

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One of the saddest episodes in the life of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, alias Louis-Ferdinand Céline, came right after he published his first novel in 1933.

Voyage a la bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) was a succés d’estime from the start and before long a bestseller too. Surely it would be soon made into a major motion picture.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story

Trevor Lynch

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I had a bad feeling about this.

It wasn’t just Solo‘s cursed production history: the original directors were sacked near the end of shooting, and Ron Howard was brought in to finish the movie, reshooting 70 percent of it. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Vader: A Star Wars Story

Buttercup Dew

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Even as New Star Wars steps into the past of its original characters, it steps further from what originally defined it. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, Darth Vader, Max Stirner, North American New Right, originals, Star Wars, the Right | Comments closed

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Unbreakable

Trevor Lynch

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Unbreakable (2000) is many people’s least favorite M. Night Shyamalan film, but I think it is his best: brilliantly conceived and scripted, beautifully acted and filmed, and quite moving. Since the film is almost two decades old, I trust nobody will complain about spoilers.

Unbreakable is a superhero film, but it does not contain any computer animation, strobe-fast editing, or deafening crashes and booms. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Bruce Willis, M. Night Shyamalan, manliness, North American New Right, originals, principle of plenitude, Samuel L. Jackson, self-actualization, superheroes, Trevor Lynch, Unbreakable | Comments closed

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Avengers: Infinity War

Buttercup Dew

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Infinity War is a “gargantuan” film that has surpassed being a mere movie and become a cinema “event.” It is the latest in the trilogy of Avengers movies, and apparently nineteenth in Marvel’s “Cinematic Universe.” Having seen only Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I watched this fanboy-specific orgasmatron with unbiased eyes and little clue what was happening. It’s big, it’s gnarly, it has Thor, the Hulk, and all your favorite (or not so favorite) characters, but is it any good? Read more …

Published: May 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Avengers: Infinity War, Buttercup Dew, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Batman:
The Dark Knight Returns

Trevor Lynch

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is an animated movie adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. Released in two 76-minute parts in 2012 and 2013, then combined into a 148-minute edition DVD and Blu-ray, this is lame, sclerotic, constipated, Z-grade animation drawn out to paralyzing lengths, completely lacking the visual style and dynamism of the original graphic novel, which is more animated on the printed page than in this adaptation. Read more …

Published: May 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Bartman, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, North American New Right, superheroes, The Dark Knight Returns, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Folk & Horror

Timo Hännikäinen

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Editor’s Note:

The following essay is a chapter from Timo Hännikäinen’s new book Medusan kasvot. Kirjoituksia kauhusta (The Face of Medusa: Writings on Horror).

The term “folk horror” usually refers to those British horror movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s influenced by folklore and often set in rural areas in past centuries. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, folk horror, horror, human sacrifice, North American New Right, originals, paganism, The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Wicker Man, Timo Hännikäinen, translations, Witchfinder General | Comments closed

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A Quiet Place:
A Review

Claus Brinker

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John Krasinksi, probably best known as Jim in the long-running television series The Office, is the director and star of a unique 2018 horror film called A Quiet Place. Krasinki breaks from his typical casting as a smirking “soy boy” to play a gruff and serious survivalist in this post-apocalyptic drama. The film shows us what the world would be like if Earth became infested with monsters who attack any sound louder than a certain unspecified decibel level. These monsters are numerous and they move with lightning speed. The film begins after most of the human population has already been destroyed. Read more …

Published: April 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Quiet Place, articles, Claus Brinker, horror movies, John Krasinski, North American New Right, originals, science fiction | Comments closed

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Film Klub rváčů coby Písmo svaté

Jef Costello

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English original here

1. Jsem Jackova nejoddanější Vesmírná opice

Dlouho jsem se zdráhal psát o Klubu rváčů, jelikož bych tím porušil první dvě pravidla Klubu rváčů. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in Czech, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

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“Only White Nationalism Will Make Wakanda Real”
Black Panther

Trevor Lynch

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I saw Black Panther with a friend in Seattle last week. Judging from the reverent silence in the theater — broken only occasionally by our laughter at unintentional bits of humor — it was an all-white audience. The serious tone of Black Panther is a departure from recent Marvel movies, which constantly undercut heroism with ironic humor. But Black Panther is a movie about numinous, magical Negroes, and some things are sacred. God is not mocked. (Unless he is Thor.) Read more …

Published: February 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Black Nationalism, Black Panther, graphic novels and comics, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Toward a White Wakanda

James Dunphy

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The new Black Panther film is problematic in some respects. Seeing blacks idealized in an advanced world of the future–that of Wakanda–is probably bad for the average white person. It doesn’t give them the sort of accurate view of a typical black society I showed in my Similarities article. Read more …

Published: February 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Panther, film reviews, James Dunphy, North American New Right, originals, Ryan Coogler, Wakanda | Comments closed

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The Legend of Suram Fortress

Alex Graham

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The Legend of Suram Fortress is a Georgian-language film directed by Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze based on a Georgian folk legend involving a young man whose sacrificial immurement within the walls of Suram Fortress enables the fortress to stand erect and protect the nation against foreign invaders. Read more …

Published: February 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, film reviews, North American New Right, originals, Sergei Parajanov | Comments closed

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Spielberg’s War:
Saving Private Ryan & the Jewish Experience

Anglian Exile

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Saving Private Ryan is widely acknowledged to be one of the best war films ever made. Released in 1998, the film quickly became both a critical and commercial success, and was soon nominated for 11 Oscars – ultimately going on to win five (including both Best Picture and Best Director). Spielberg was praised for challenging both audience desensitization and the idea of World War II as some sort of “glamorous” or “romantic”[1] affair, Read more …