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Howard M. Riell

Howard Riell is a veteran journalist, editor, author, teacher and consultant. An Orthodox Jew, he has hosted and produced his own radio talk show, Riell Truth, on Christian radio station KHNC 1360AM in Colorado, since 2008.

La La Land (2016): Musical Crack

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by Howard M. Riell

Indulge the self, you Millennials out there, because what could be more important than what you want? Other people? What other people? That’s the all-too-easy-to-swallow message – and it’s a lousy one …

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The Invisible Man (2020): Men, Invisible

April 6, 2020April 3, 2020 by Howard M. Riell

Tough to tell whether The Invisible Man is simply the name of a new movie or a commentary on the way men in American society have been minimized – and boys feminized …

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Doctor Strange (2019): China

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

China. Big place. Lots of people. Weird food. And some heavy-duty influence in Hollywood. Hollywood? Yep. When we’re talking about movie agendas it’s no longer just left-wing quiche-eating yutzes in …

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Charlie’s Angels (2019): Tedium, Thy Name is Woman

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

Keep an eye cocked throughout this review for the word “tedious” in all its grammatical forms, because it will recur. “Bland, witless and ludicrous’ – Elizabeth Banks’s reboot of this …

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Them That Follow (2019): Them That Mock

October 4, 2019September 27, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

Oy — not God again! Richard Dawkins — English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, one-time University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science and …

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Ad Astra (2019): To Cream the Impossible Dream

October 4, 2019September 27, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

Remember Camelot? No, not the Kennedys. The musical. It was a play about striving, reaching, questing. “To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To try when your …

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A Vigilante (2018): Why Are the Men So Weak?

June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

 If you’ve got a penis…… HOLY CRAP ARE YOU IN FOR IT NOW! Nothing with testosterone escapes unmutilated in today’s red-hot revenge genre. A pair of new movies – A Vigilante, starring …

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Avengers: Endgame (2019)

June 15, 2019May 14, 2019 by Howard M. Riell
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What the hell is Harvey Weinstein doing smack in the middle of a freakin’ Avengers movie? No, I don’t mean the blubbery, bullying groper (and worse) of women has donned …

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The Golem (2018): Estrogen Monster

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 by Howard M. Riell

In Jewish lore, the golem — a soulless and violent creature fashioned from clay who wreaks terrible vengeance on anti-semites — is powered by kabbalistic magic. In this year’s The Golem, …

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The Post (2017): Post Hoc

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 by Howard M. Riell
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The Post presents The Washington Post newspaper as a champion of press freedom back in the early 1970s for publishing the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the U.S. government …

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