The Pamphleteer

2 weeks ago | pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

The students sat in the hallway outside the classroom on this late January morning, their gently used editions of mass comm staple Media & Culture propped open as they furiously flicked through the pages. Like most college professors, I was prepared for this semester’s first round of textbook pushback.

2 weeks ago | pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

With Yellowstone and its endless line of spinoffs, Taylor Sheridan revived the cowboy as the quintessential presence on popular television. But, the westerns that once defined Hollywood at home and abroad have yet to make their comeback, much less reclaim their glory as the American movies’ greatest genre. In an industry so fueled by franchise IP, most would shy away from the type of midbudget frontier flicks upon which Hollywood built itself.

2 weeks ago | pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

Captain America: Brave New World(Disney+) Marvel’s winter hit clearly suffered some fallout from the 2023 Writers’ Strike, but Anthony Mackie proves himself a worthy successor to the OG Cap in this more grounded espionage-centric entry. Watch the newly-minted Sam Wilson don the shield and take on a group of assassins gunning for Harrison Ford’s gruffly charming President.

3 weeks ago | pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

In 1975, American moviegoers saw Keith Carradine’s Tom Frank on the Exit/In stage, plucking the melancholy ballad “I’m Easy.” During his character’s time in town, the nomadic lothario not only bedded an LA interloper (Shelley Duvall) and a grating BBC correspondent (Geraldine Chaplin), but his bandmate, Mary (Cristina Raines). As if that weren’t enough, he’s trying to make it with Linnea (Lily Tomlin), a married gospel singer.

3 weeks ago | pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

For years, Kash Pramod Patel has fantasized about remaking the F.B.I. “in his own image.” At least that’s what The New York Times’s Adam Goldman reported this weekend in his article, “Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials.” Citing Patel’s 2023 book Government Gangsters: The Deep State, The Truth, and The Battle for Our Democracy, Goldman recounts the new F.B.I. director’s attempt to dismiss political partisans and find the sources of leaks with polygraphs.