Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #21 – 'Coming Home' (1978)
“I wanted to be a war hero, man, I wanted to go out and kill for my country. And now, I’m here to tell you that I have killed for my country or whatever. And I don’t feel good about
“I wanted to be a war hero, man, I wanted to go out and kill for my country. And now, I’m here to tell you that I have killed for my country or whatever. And I don’t feel good about
As he tries to conflate Actor George Clooney’s humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Sudanese to a larger example of the altruism of liberals versus the selfishness of conservatives, Bill Maher says, “I don’t think conservatives are bad people, I
If you enjoy the halting, semi-detached, half-ironic, superior snark-enese spoken by that “endearingly off-beat” and shockingly pale woman who runs the Kubrick-ian retail store that serves as the set for those Progressive Insurance commercials, you might make it through “Easy
The George Clooney film The American opened in the number one box office spot this last weekend despite a terrible reception from those who actually sat through the film. According to the reviews Clooney plays an armorer turned assassin, which
According to the LA Times, since the creation of the reality award category at the Emmys, one program has dominated the past seven years. However, this year, perennial winner “The Amazing Race,” ended its winning streak losing to “Top Chef.”
One of the reasons that movies today are so devoid of compelling characters and engrossing plots is that the folks who make them are, more often than not, too young and too isolated from humanity. That’s not to say that
***clarification update below. Last week, film writer extraordinaire Christian Toto fell under the delusion that yours truly was interesting enough to interview, and if you’re under the same delusion you can read the two-parter here and here. Among other things,
They call the early half of the twentieth century the Golden Age of Hollywood, but it might more aptly be called the American Age. In those days, the American people had a great love for Hollywood. On an average week,
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is conflict with itself. Like all unions, although it’s ostensibly in existence to help the little people, what’s really happening is that prominent members of SAG are making a killing without any real redistribution of
The AP has so effectively embarrassed themselves here that no comment is required other than to point out that what the AP is reporting on is not an entertainment-related event but a fraud trial. We don’t make this stuff up
Criticizing Obama? In public? Who knew George Clooney was a racist? From an editorial Clooney wrote with John Prendergast in the USA Today: The largest conventional war on the face of the earth in 2011 will occur in Sudan unless
I grew up in the fairly small city of Little Rock, Arkansas, and from as early as I can remember, I wanted to escape to Los Angeles or New York City and enter the world of showbiz. I watched and
A sudden revival of appreciating my European filmmaking roots was curiously prompted when the game between the Saints and the Cardinals abruptly intensified in the second half. The Pig and Whistle restaurant on Hollywood Blvd.–where I was watching the game
Steven Crowder: I know, I know. Italy has been questioning the amount of aid that the United States has sent to Haiti as of late. If only we could be more like our Italian counterparts. How many troops have they
I know, I know. Italy has been questioning the amount of aid that the United States has sent to Haiti as of late. If only we could be more like our Italian counterparts. How many troops have they put on
For years, the New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich have played the same journalistic card trick: Take the hot button issue of the week, cross it with the latest pop culture reference and – voila! – Times readers
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglorious Basterds Precious Up In the Air BEST PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL (500) Days of Summer The Hangover It’s Complicated Julie & Julia Nine BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE Kathryn Bigelow
In a publicity event for the new History Channel film “The People Speak” held at UCLA last week, actor/producer Josh Brolin was charming, self-effacing, funny, and down-right likeable. And, that was the whole reason he was there. We live in
Have you seen the previews for the movies coming out this holiday season? December movies were once second in quality only to the summer releases, with a raft of comedies, dramas and a few big-budget blockbusters to choose from. You
All your life, you’ve heard about the American Dream: find a wife or husband, pop out some kids, buy a house with a white picket fence and live happily ever after in the cozy embrace of suburbia. But what if
Give the military-industrial complex an unlimited budget, and it’ll find unlimited ways to kill people. From megaton nuclear missiles to Donald Rumsfeld’s allegedly humane, small-scale nuclear “bunker busters,” and from robot soldiers to Barack Obama’s beloved predator drone planes, our
Humans like to think they know the difference between truth and fiction. But in the modern media age, even as we feel technology has made us more savvy than ever, there’s always a disquieting edge that makes us wonder what’s
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Whatever happened to good old-fashioned American know-how, pulling yourself up from the bootstraps, proving to the world you have the mettle to succeed on your own raw talent? If you’re Paris Hilton or, say, the Huffington Post — none of
AP: George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy’s recent earthquake and told the survivors he’ll shoot a film in their mountain region. The actor inspected crumbled buildings during a visit on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in L’Aquila.
