Peter Suderman

Peter Suderman has no real useful knowledge or skills, but has watched a few movies and enjoys middlebrow television and indie rock, and thus dabbles mostly in that generally useless thing labeled “cultural criticism.” He’s a regular contributor to NRO, and his writing has been published in National Review, The New Atlantis, The American Conservative, Commentary, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, Reason, and a number of other publications. Occasionally, he’ll claim to be a libertarian, but that’s really just Washington code for “argumentative geek.” After a brief stint trying to make it as a stereotypical Brooklynite, he recently returned to the Washington, D.C. area, where he doesn’t ever have to explain to anyone what the Cato Institute is. He currently lives in what’s politely known as an “up and coming neighborhood” in the District. He responds to most reasonably sane, not overly belligerent emails sent to peter.suderman@gmail.com.

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Wolverine: the Curse of the Pirate Critic

Business Apr 7 2009, 7:30 PM ET

Should movie critics have special rights to pirated films? That's the question that seemed to be at stake after FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman reviewed an illegally leaked copy of a major summer film almost a month before its planned theatrical release. More »

What a billion dollar box-office gets you

Business Feb 28 2009, 9:15 AM ET

The Dark Knight, last summer's dark and dreary Batman sequel, recently became only the fourth film to break the $1 billion barrier in combined domestic and international box-office. As Box Office Mojo points out, the movie's record haul has some unique properties, too: First of all, it's a sequel, and sequels almost never surpass the earnings of their predecessors. It's also the only film amongst the all-time top twenty box-office champs to earn more… More »