John Podheretz<\/a>, the academy-award nominee \u201cJuno\u201d is a profoundly culturally-conservative-in-the-best-sense movie, being against both abortion and, even more subversively to today\u2019s pop culture, against the very concept of \u201ccool.\u201d Now I want to see it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to movie critic John Podheretz, the academy-award nominee \u201cJuno\u201d is a profoundly culturally-conservative-in-the-best-sense movie, being against both abortion and, even more subversively to today\u2019s pop culture, against the very concept of \u201ccool.\u201d Now I want to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-issues","category-movies"],"yoast_head":"\n
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