Can conservatives make great movies?

Quick — name a great conservative movie that came out in the last five years. 

Not easy, is it? Despite crushing the Democrats in the recent election, despite Hollywood’s awful recent box office, despite having hugely successful billion-dollar media companies, conservatism can’t produce a great movie. On the International Movie Database list of the “50 Best Conservative Movies,” the most recent film, Juno, came out in 2007 — almost 20 years ago. Other films on the list are indeed brilliant, but most are more than two decades old: The Incredibles, Metropolitan, The Lives of Others.

I was recently contacted by the president of a right-leaning film company interested in an adaptation of my book The Devil’s Triangle. The book describes how I was targeted by

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