When the 15th Academy Awards kicked off at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel on the evening of March 4, 1943, MGM's Mrs. Miniver was up for a staggering dozen nominations, and ended up walking away with six, including top of the| SteynOnline
It goes without saying that every war film (and a few other besides) that Hollywood made during World War Two was a propaganda film. Nobody would mistake Destination Tokyo (1943) as anything but propaganda, made by Warners, arguably the most jingoistic| SteynOnline
In his book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Doolittle Raid pilot Ted Lawson recalls the moment his B-25 bomber reached the coast of Japan – the first land he had seen, he tells us, after being at sea on the USS Hornet for nearly three weeks. "It looked very| SteynOnline
Mark is a little under the weather today, so for our Song of the Week this week we're reprising a song that first appeared here over a decade ago. It was heard on this weekend's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, and it seems appropriate upon this| SteynOnline
ANOTHER UPDATE! If you missed today's edition of Clubland Q&A live around the planet, the action replay can be found here. THURSDAY UPDATE (AUG 14, 9 a.m. EST) -- Reminder, Q&A is today at 3 p.m. EST. Be sure to submit your questions for guest host Laura| SteynOnline
Just for our Hawaiian readers, in honour of this coming week's Statehood Day: Rock-a-hulaRock-rock-a-hulaRock-a-hulaRock-rock-a-hula... On August 21st 1959, Hawaii joined the United States of America as the fiftieth state, and in just its first| SteynOnline
Programming note: Please join me tonight at SteynOnline for the launch of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time. Tomorrow, Saturday, I'll be back for my weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. It airs at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in| SteynOnline
UPPESTDATE! If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, the action replay is available here. UPPERDATE! We're live now, so let's have at it! UPDATE! We'll be going live in about fifteen minutes, so do get ready to fire| SteynOnline
There's a cherished myth that the films made before the enforcement of Will Hays' Motion Picture Production Code in 1934 are a lost paradise of moviemaking: a frank, honest, adult cinematic universe that we were only able to return to with the| SteynOnline
There's a bit of conventional wisdom among film nerds that the brief era between the introduction of sound and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934 was a golden era for freedom of expression. Before moral scolds and killjoys like| SteynOnline
Programming note: Join me later today for another edition of our weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town, which airs on Serenade Radio every Saturday at 5pm GMT - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen| SteynOnline
Programming note: Join me tomorrow, Saturday, for the latest episode of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, On the Town. It starts at 5pm Greenwich Mean Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen from| SteynOnline
On this week's Clubland Q&A, my planned remarks on England's epidemic of child gang-rape by Pakistani men were thrown off course by the mass murder and terror attacks of Joe Biden's "peaceful transfer of power". Nevertheless, it was, for some of us,| SteynOnline
Is there a more perfect western than Ride Lonesome? Any statement like that will just prompt a chorus of disagreement, some of it outraged. ("So you've never seen The Searchers?" "Yeah, if they never made High Noon." "Sorry, buddy, but there are six| SteynOnline
Programming note: Join Steyn later this evening for another episode of his current Tale for Our Time, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story", Mystery in White. ~On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark remembers a French composer,| SteynOnline
Programming note: Join me later this evening for another episode of our nightly audio adventure - and the first of this year's Christmas capers - Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern -| SteynOnline
Programming note: Join Mark later this evening for another episode of his nightly audio adventure - and the first of this year's Christmas capers - Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern -| SteynOnline
Welcome to Part Two of Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and the first in this season's Christmas capers. Keith Farrell, an English member of The Mark Steyn Club, was so thrilled by the introduction| SteynOnline
My late father simultaneously abhorred Muslims and adulated Jews. Muslims were savage, stupid and very bad for the West. Jews were civilized, intelligent and very good for the West. What more need be said? A lot, I thought. I pointed out that Muslims were in the West because of Jews. My father dismissed this as nonsense. Jews weren’t stupid and Muslims were enemies of Jews. Therefore Jews could not possibly want Muslims in the West.| The Occidental Observer