Bernard Chapin of Mens News Daily interviews Steve Sailer about Steve's work as a movie reviewer.

Hollywood tries hard to give the public what it wants, and some tastes have been moving in conservative directions. Adultery, for example, has fallen very much out of fashion in movies. Many young moviegoers grew up in broken families, and they disapprove of parents fooling around. On the other hand, today a nerdier segment of the audience gets a fetishistic charge out of seeing beautiful women engage in violence, so we are besieged by "Kill Bill" type movies about willowy women improbably kicking butt.

Hollywood has done right by a number of conservative authors. Besides "Lord of the Rings," the four Jack Ryan movies from Tom Clancy's novels have all been solid. And could we have asked for a more intelligent and faithfully detailed rendition of Patrick O'Brian's sea novels than "Master and Commander?" The three studios that teamed up to spend $150 million on Peter Weir's film are probably going to lose a lot of money because they didn't vulgarize the movie. Some literate middle-aged guys got together and spent a fortune making a movie for other guys like themselves (and like the people who read my reviews), and, no surprise, it turns out there aren't enough of us.

The whole interview is worth a read. One interesting point Steve makes is that the deals involved in making a movie require so much time to put together that movies take years to make. Therefore it is a mistake to think that if Hollywood puts out, say, a war movie that it is doing so in response to events that occurred within the last year. Any movie about war that came out in 2002 was probably not a response to 9/11 or the war in Afghanistan for example.