The Exit/In Cashes in on Nashville's Identity Crisis
One of the city’s oldest indie music venues comes to terms with its role in New Nashville and the self-styled martyrdom that has defined it over the past year.
Author Archive
Dr. Carol Swain’s Ivory Tower Exit
The former Vanderbilt Professor discusses entering the arena of the public intellectual with her bestselling rejoinder to CRT and her mentorship of young academics who want to follow her lead.
The Pamphleteer Streaming Guide May 2022
From recent Oscar nominees to neglected 70s classics, this month’s offerings go beyond the algorithms.
Review: Uncharted
An underwhelming videogame adaptation seems stitched together from better movies.
Review: The Batman
Impressive casting and a gritty story close to its comics source inject new life into the long-in-the truth franchise.
Review: Cyrano
An update of the French classic almost falters thanks to the fallout from its overzealous PC appeasement.
Film Review: The Worst Person in the World
Norway’s Oscar-nominated anti-romcom is also the movie about millennials we knew we needed.
Lightyears From Reality
Disney’s biggest nemesis is not Ron DeSantis, but its own artistic compromise.
An Oscars Guide for the Ambivalent
The Academy Awards don't warrant our full attention, so we gave out our own awards
Ending Proof of Vaccination in Tennessee
Patching the Vaxx Passport Crack in the COVID Omnibus
Book Review: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam
By Vivek Ramaswamy Center Street Press. Hardcover. $28.00.
Review: Jackass Forever
Johnny Knoxville and Co. remind a COVID-obsessed America that growing older doesn’t have to mean embracing the status quo.
Millennials Didn’t Ruin Cinema, They Just Made It About Themselves
Why Generation Me Isn’t Showing up Onscreen
“When in Doubt, Go to the Library”
From an inaugural author ambassador program to the return of live tours and puppet shows, The Nashville Public Library retakes its place at the center of the city’s culture calendar
Review: West Side Story
Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Hollywood classic makes a case for the big-screen experience and the enduring relevance of America’s most famous filmmaker.