GEORGE CLOONEY, CLOSET CONSERVATIVE? The Anti-Communist Film Festival: Hail, Caesar!

 Since I announced the Anti-Communist Film Festival last month, the response has been fantastic. Conservatives understand that a film festival showcasing some of the great anti-communist movies can be a powerful – and fun – inoculation against a poisonous false god.

What’s also been surprising is how many anti-communist movies there are. I’ve heard from people not only in the United States but with ties to Cuba, China, and the old Soviet Union. I’ve also heard from directors and actors in Hollywood. We’re planning the festival for fall 2026 if we can raise the money for it and attract a sponsor or two.

We also want the festival to have not only serious films, but fun ones. We want it to be a party that entertains and brings people together. That’s why I think a great addition to the lineup would be Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! produced and directed in 2016 by Joel and Ethan Cohen, delves into the deepest question of our time – the question of God and our place in the universe. It also makes communists look like absolute idiots.

It makes for a nice double-feature with 1999’s Three Kings, in which Clooney made the case for the Iraq War.