Like too many other Americans, I recently lost my job. Knowing that I was far from alone in my anxiety-provoking situation helped a bit, as did receiving my first unemployment check. But aside from glimpses in news articles and the occasional outreach project, it seemed that the individual stories...

Since Reagan's second term, Hollywood has responded to each administration with a Die Hard movie. And now at last we have the George W. installment. Bruce Willis, as the indefatigable NYC cop John McClane, this time saves (spoiler alert) the entire country from collapse by foiling a takeover of the...

Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator, said last week that he's in the "very, very early stages" of a movie project with Stephen McEveety, a producer on The Passion of the Christ and other Mel Gibson films. The planned movie "follows three Iranian brothers who take disparate paths in...

America's taste for brains is at an all-time high, judging from the zombie movies that have invaded multiplexes. Whereas the most graphic of flesh-munching films used to be found only at midnight shows or in scuzzy tenderloin grindhouses (hence the schlocky zombie tribute that is Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez's half...

America is in a tizzy over the Sopranos finale, and people are saying some really stupid things. Take Marvin Kitman, for example. His post here yesterday declared: "An example of promising them everything and giving them nothing, the final episode made me feel snookered and artistically betrayed," and "going...