I was going to write something, but Q and O did it for me in a post called “Fake but Accurate Isn’t Good Enough: Look, there’s no way to sugar-coat the Clinton Administrations handling of terror in general, and Osama bin Laden in particular. In the case mentioned above, the culprit was apparently George Tenet, [...]

I am asking in earnest, do you think that Jesus’ teachings advocate anything close to what you see here? It’s a new film. It’s called Jesus Camp and it’s about the summer camps evangelicals send their kids to so they can become better trained Christians…emphasis on the “trained.” Supposedly, the film is very even handed [...]

The op-ed by Todd Beamer’s father, based on the Flight 93 movie, is behind the subscription firewall at the WSJ. Cardinalpark, however, has a key excerpt up over at Tigerhawk: This film further reminds us of the nature of the enemy we face. An enemy who will stop at nothing to achieve world domination and [...]

It opens next week. Will you go see it? According to advance reviews, it doesn’t suck. In the city where it will premiere next Tuesday, United 93 is being greetedâ€â€?or repelled?â€â€?almost as if it were itself some kind of terror attack. Is the movie pornography? Exploitation? Too much too soon? Having seen it once (apparently [...]

Jeff Goldstein on the latest “South Park.” As most of you know by now, Comedy Central censored last night’s episode of “South Park,â€Â? refusing to run an image of Mohammedâ€â€?evidently out of cultural sensitivity to those who Comedy Central executives fear might, I dunno, key their cars? Write angry emails? Or maybe there really is [...]

Alternate title: When social agendas collide. Oh, dear. Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with [...]

Heh. Looks like I’m not the only one who noticed the off-putting preachiness of last year’s Hollywood crop. Even a liberal — sorry “liberal,” as we’re putting the word in scare quotes now till we know for sure the subject’s attitude toward Locke and David Lloyd George — such as Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has a [...]

Feeling like Hollywood has gotten more preachy lately? You might be right. Consider Participant Productions, the makers of “Syriana,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and, soon, “Fast Food Nation.” The Guardian took a look behind the curtain: Set up in 2004 by Jeff Skoll, billionaire co-founder of eBay, Participant’s express purpose is to make movies [...]

The most: 8. My prediction is that it’ll win 5, since none of the actors will win in their categories. What are your Oscar predictions?

No, not the movie kind. The real kind. Andrew Sullivan points out a heartbreaking true story. And to that point, I saw Brokeback Mountain recently and trust me, it lives up to the hype. Yes, I did cringe when I saw the previews, but the film is honest, sober and effective. Even that line, “I [...]

…do see it. A very revealing look into the lives of the super, super…super rich.

The trailer is up.

Looks like Jacques is trying to garner some personal favors from Hollywood… More from Cinematical… According to The Da Vinci Code’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, a meet and greet with French president Jacques Chirac last year turned into something quite different. About a year ago, the pair was in Paris trying to get permits [...]

Originally I talked about Syriana being THE movie to see this holiday season. Why? Well, it’s the only one that deals with the war on terrorism, its roots and what could be done about it. Some commenters and fellow bloggers said they’d pass because they felt it would be too left-wing. Fair enough, but I [...]

Well one of his masterpieces, M, is available for download (for free) at Internet Archive. I’m downloading it right now. Do take advantage.

Fox News has the first review of what will soon be known as a highly controversial film… Syriana is a thriller but it can be a bit confusing. The basic story is that an oil company has set up shop in the Gulf, just as a merger is going through. The local royal Arab family [...]

Somehow, I don’t think Michael Moore considered making this documentary: In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence. A people whom [...]

Eerie stuff… This script was written before anything happened in New Orleans, but now the details come to light, according to Cinematical: As McClane is transporting an (unrelated) hacker from New York to Washington D.C., the cyber terrorists strike, and within hours, the NYC transit system, the NYSE, and the systems controlling the nation’s ATMs [...]

The upcoming film The Aristocrats sounds like an interesting idea for a documentary: several comedians telling their version of the same joke. But it’s not just any joke. Its reputed to be the dirtiest joke ever. Comedians rarely use it onstage but improvise their own lewd rendition to out-gross one another backstage. USA Today: ‘Aristocrats’ [...]

Some people are so obsessed with politics they see it everywhere and don’t understand that there are some places where it just doesn’t belong. The results often aren’t pretty. Consider what David Koepp, screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s remake of War of the Worlds, said about his own script. “And now, as we see American adventure [...]