Hannah Long
Writer at Freelance
Editor at HarperCollins Publishers
Editor acquiring for Harper and Broadside Books at HarperCollins. Tweeting film/TV/books. Bylines: @thedispatch, @AngelusNews, @Plough, etc. Brooklyn redneck.
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1 week ago |
christianitytoday.com | Hannah Long
The Mission: Impossible franchise believes the world needs forgiveness ... but its leading man is problematically perfect. At one point in the film Lawrence of Arabia, the eponymous T. E. Lawrence, an imperious Englishman, defies his Arab friends' disapproval in order to save a man's life.
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1 week ago |
rlo.acton.org | Hannah Long
Whittaker Chambers couldn’t have predicted that his defection from the Communist Party would start because of a toddler. It was the 1930s, and Chambers—an American spying for the Soviets—was watching his young daughter messily eat in her high chair. “My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear—those intricate, perfect ears,” he later wrote. “The thought passed through my mind: ‘No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view).
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Mar 1, 2025 |
thedispatch.com | Valerie Pavilonis |Hannah Long |Jonah Goldberg |Joseph Holmes
Culture Will Timothée Chalamet go down in history as a great actor, or a meme? Published March 1, 2025 Last year, the New York Times published a list of what its critics deemed the best books of the 21st century. (So far.) Offices and book clubs across the country chattered about which books made it and which got snubbed, which were ranked higher and lower than deserved.
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Mar 1, 2025 |
thedispatch.com | Joseph Holmes |Hannah Long |Scott Lincicome |Jonah Goldberg
Culture This year’s Oscar nominees want to burn it all down. Published March 1, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. I love watching the Oscars. Partly it’s just because I love movies, but I also do it as a culture critic.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
thedispatch.com | Joseph Holmes |Guy Denton |Hannah Long |Michael Warren
Culture Treating love like a horror-fantasy isn’t very helpful for human flourishing. Published February 15, 2025 This month has brought a surprising uptick in a more gory kind of date flick. Companion is a sci-fi thriller about a companion robot who turns against her owner and blows his brains out. Heart Eyes follows a slasher villain named Heart Eyes who kills couples on Valentine’s Day. Love Hurts is about a mob enforcer who kills his old crew to save an old flame.
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This film allowed me to define something that's been coalescing in my head for a while--exactly why a specific sort of "power of the ordinary" movie rubs me the wrong way. The thing is this: the movies are never actually about an ordinary man, but a prodigy.
“The Life of Chuck” aims at profundity—and comes up short. From reviewer @HannahGraceLong: https://t.co/frzGi9ka8k
RT @CTmagazine: “The Life of Chuck” aims at profundity—and comes up short. From reviewer @HannahGraceLong: https://t.co/frzGi9ka8k
RT @dougponder: Yesterday, at an appointment for my son with a rare genetic disorder, my wife expressed dismay at the discovery of new symp…
