Print John Nolte Follow Read Full Bio CNN's Soledad O'Brien Badgers Republican Congressman to Raise Taxes 13 Nov 2012 Joe Trippi: More Democrats Watch Fox Than Watch MSNBC 13 Nov 2012 Your Guide To Understanding the Media for the Next Four Years There's no question we have a long four years ahead of us, and the fact that we're going to have to fight the mainstream media every inch of the way is only going to make those years feel longer. But if we're going to fight the media, we at least have to understand what we're up against and what the media's over-arching goal is. 13 Nov 2012 Top Five Dumbest Things In Politico's Attack On the 'GOP's Media Cocoon' Once again, to gussie up an opinion piece as though it's journalism, Politico solicits quotes from those who can be counted on to say only what affirms the premise, and the headline is made aggregation-friendly to lather up the MSNBC crowd. But in the end, Martin's piece is like most everything else you read at Politico: partisan, silly, a little desperate, and just plain wrong. 13 Nov 2012 'Red Dust' (1932) Review: Sizzling Morality Tale Packed with Starpower Thanks to director Victor Fleming and three exceptional performances from Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor, 1932's under-appreciated "Red Dust" sizzles even more than its more-famous 1953 big-budget color remake "Mogambo," which was directed by John Ford and cast Gable in the same role he played in the original. Never before available on home video, "Red Dust" is now thanks to the national treasure that is the Warner Archives. 12 Nov 2012 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Thanksgiving Movie Ever But like he did with all his best films, Hughes infuses "Planes" with a big bursting heart. Neal and Del just want to get home to their loved ones. That's their only goal, and Hughes makes sure you're just as invested in that goal as they are. But the real emotional pay-off comes from the friendship that slowly and awkwardly develops between the two men -- two polar opposites brought together by bad weather and the worst kind of luck. As though it were a romantic comedy, you really want to see Neal and Del find a way to be together. 12 Nov 2012 'The Campaign' Bluray Review: Smug, Superior, Hypocritical, Cold and Crude Other than an overwrought and hysterical attack on the Koch Brothers, the politics of "The Campaign" are surprisingly even-handed. The real problem is the non-stop crudeness, a total lack of warmth, and this utterly bizarre trend where so much of comedy today now comes from its creator's smug sense of superiority over the rest of us. 10 Nov 2012 'Magic Mike' Bluray Review: Well-Crafted But Sleazy Director Steven Soderbergh's R-rated character study (and surprise box office hit) takes us behind-the scenes and deep into the subculture of male strippers. The film is objectively impressive in the areas of acting, writing, and directing. There's no question about that. It's just too sleazy and sexualized for my taste. 10 Nov 2012 'Brave' Bluray Review: Kids Will Love It, Adults Not So Much Politically correct critics crybabied for a Pixar film with a female protagonist and with "Brave" they finally have one. What the rest of us got, though, is a pretty weak entry in the Pixar canon; an original fairy tale sure to delight the kids while leaving adults out in the cold. We've pretty much seen it all before. Like the rest of us, these politically correct crybaby critics deserved better. 10 Nov 2012 'Sunset Boulevard' Bluray Review: Billy Wilder's Brilliant Cautionary Tale Believe it or not, unlike what we see so much of today, there was a time when Hollywood made films about Hollywood that didn't wallow in narcissism or attempt to fool us into believing a real heart beats behind all of that "moral" depravity. Director, co-writer Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" doesn't exactly bite the hand of an industry that made him a wealthy prince, but his cautionary tale is stripped completely of any of the romanticism or sentiment in showing us the dark underbelly of Tinseltown. 10 Nov 2012 Previous 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 Next
Your Guide To Understanding the Media for the Next Four Years There's no question we have a long four years ahead of us, and the fact that we're going to have to fight the mainstream media every inch of the way is only going to make those years feel longer. But if we're going to fight the media, we at least have to understand what we're up against and what the media's over-arching goal is. 13 Nov 2012
Top Five Dumbest Things In Politico's Attack On the 'GOP's Media Cocoon' Once again, to gussie up an opinion piece as though it's journalism, Politico solicits quotes from those who can be counted on to say only what affirms the premise, and the headline is made aggregation-friendly to lather up the MSNBC crowd. But in the end, Martin's piece is like most everything else you read at Politico: partisan, silly, a little desperate, and just plain wrong. 13 Nov 2012
'Red Dust' (1932) Review: Sizzling Morality Tale Packed with Starpower Thanks to director Victor Fleming and three exceptional performances from Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor, 1932's under-appreciated "Red Dust" sizzles even more than its more-famous 1953 big-budget color remake "Mogambo," which was directed by John Ford and cast Gable in the same role he played in the original. Never before available on home video, "Red Dust" is now thanks to the national treasure that is the Warner Archives. 12 Nov 2012
'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Thanksgiving Movie Ever But like he did with all his best films, Hughes infuses "Planes" with a big bursting heart. Neal and Del just want to get home to their loved ones. That's their only goal, and Hughes makes sure you're just as invested in that goal as they are. But the real emotional pay-off comes from the friendship that slowly and awkwardly develops between the two men -- two polar opposites brought together by bad weather and the worst kind of luck. As though it were a romantic comedy, you really want to see Neal and Del find a way to be together. 12 Nov 2012
'The Campaign' Bluray Review: Smug, Superior, Hypocritical, Cold and Crude Other than an overwrought and hysterical attack on the Koch Brothers, the politics of "The Campaign" are surprisingly even-handed. The real problem is the non-stop crudeness, a total lack of warmth, and this utterly bizarre trend where so much of comedy today now comes from its creator's smug sense of superiority over the rest of us. 10 Nov 2012
'Magic Mike' Bluray Review: Well-Crafted But Sleazy Director Steven Soderbergh's R-rated character study (and surprise box office hit) takes us behind-the scenes and deep into the subculture of male strippers. The film is objectively impressive in the areas of acting, writing, and directing. There's no question about that. It's just too sleazy and sexualized for my taste. 10 Nov 2012
'Brave' Bluray Review: Kids Will Love It, Adults Not So Much Politically correct critics crybabied for a Pixar film with a female protagonist and with "Brave" they finally have one. What the rest of us got, though, is a pretty weak entry in the Pixar canon; an original fairy tale sure to delight the kids while leaving adults out in the cold. We've pretty much seen it all before. Like the rest of us, these politically correct crybaby critics deserved better. 10 Nov 2012
'Sunset Boulevard' Bluray Review: Billy Wilder's Brilliant Cautionary Tale Believe it or not, unlike what we see so much of today, there was a time when Hollywood made films about Hollywood that didn't wallow in narcissism or attempt to fool us into believing a real heart beats behind all of that "moral" depravity. Director, co-writer Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" doesn't exactly bite the hand of an industry that made him a wealthy prince, but his cautionary tale is stripped completely of any of the romanticism or sentiment in showing us the dark underbelly of Tinseltown. 10 Nov 2012