It's not uncommon for a big-budget Hollywood flick to get mixed reviews and then go on to do gang-busters at the box office. Movie-goers' desires when...
TMZ | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack is suing a movie production company because it didn't have stopping power. Let us explain. In the lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Sup...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.21.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack, whose new film "War, Inc" is in theaters and whose MoveOn.org ad is tearing up the airwaves, was the #1 story on "Countdown" Friday night...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
I didn't plan my trip to London to overlap with President Bush's, but that's how it worked out. My reception has been decidedly less chilly than the one afforded Bush. Read More TIME Wants You to Ask Me a Question Time Magazine has asked me to take part in its 10 Questions feature. It would be fun to see how many of the questions Time picks are from HuffPosters. Read More John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole If McCain continues to embrace the GOP message, he's going to meet the same fate as Bob Dole. On the bright side, I'm sure those Viagra commercials paid pretty well. Read More London Calling: the 24/7 Guardian, the BBC Empire, and Blogging with a British Accent
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
Did you see War Inc., yet? No? Well it is expanding starting today thanks to word-of-mouth, the alternative press and the blogosphere, with no corpora...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack appeared on "Morning Joe" from London this morning to discuss his new film, "War Inc.," his new political ad (where he compares John McCai...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack's righteous rage over the billions being pocketed in Iraq by companies like Blackwater, and Halliburton, is the beating heart of his brilliant War Inc. The film pulls off the near-impossible: it finds a savage, reality-altering humor amidst the tragedy of Iraq. READ MORE The Big Story You May Have Missed During the Obama v. Clinton Finale The Senate Intelligence Committee's "Phase II" report on how the Bush White House used -- and abused -- pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq never uses the word, but we all know what it's called when someone presents something as fact that's directly contradicted by the evidence. A lie. Not a mistake. A lie. READ MORE Five Word Speech Submissions: Boy, Are You Guys Good!
AP | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
***SCROLL TO WATCH*** Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a video saying John McCain is a clone of President George W...
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
With the helpful panning of the corporate press as proof, the right-wing is trying make the film seem to be a total flop, despite the grassroots success that it actually is.
Vanity Fair | Vicky Ward | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
Critics in the mainstream media scoffed, for the most part, at John Cusack's low-budget didactic satire, War Inc., calling it heavy-handed and five ye...
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.28.2008 | Entertainment
While the MSM is busy panning War Inc., we have proved once again, that despite the corporate farce of free press, we can get things heard, seen, and done.
LA Times | Tina Daunt, | Posted 05.23.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack is angry. And he thinks you should be too. He's angry enough to take what might be a suicidal cinematic chance: making a stylized satire ...
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
I want to save War Inc. from what appears to be a distinct stench of blacklisting. In reading corporate excuses/reviews about why critics do not like the film, I become increasingly incensed and puzzled.
Anthony Arnove | Posted 05.19.2008 | Entertainment
Set in fictional Turaqistan, the film tells us more about Iraq -- and U.S. politics -- today than anything on offer from the establishment media, with it's 24/7 barrage of abuse of our intelligence.
NY Daily News | Ethan Sacks | Posted 05.18.2008 | Entertainment
Honed over their 10 movies together, not to mention a lifetime of dinner-table banter, actors John and Joan Cusack have developed a rapid comedic timi...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack talked about his new baby, "War, Inc," with Craig Ferguson earlier this week. The movie opens next Friday in New York and LA. Watch John...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
Cusack's new Film, War Inc., is a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow.
LA Confidential | Neil Patrick Stewart | Posted 05.10.2008 | Entertainment
War in the Middle East reaches an absurdist fever pitch in War, Inc. Meet writers Jeremy Pikser and Mark Leyner, and the mastermind behind the whole s...
Reuters via Yahoo | Michelle Nichols | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire -- complete with a chorus line of...
Howie Klein | Posted 04.21.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack and his colleagues have taken Eisenhower's 1961 warning and updated it into a chilling movie set in the not too distant future, at a time when, unfortunately, no one remembers what Ike said or why.
Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Watch an excerpt from the CNBC "power lunch" interview with John Cusack about his new film "War, Inc." CNBC Watch the full interview here...
AP | Posted 03.31.2008 | Entertainment
MALIBU, Calif. — A woman who was ordered to stay away from John Cusack has been arrested on suspicion of stalking the actor and violating a rest...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
On Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher", Maher spoke with actor John Cusack about what he is hoping for from a Democratic president. An out...
USA Today | Posted 12.07.2007 | Entertainment
Grace Is Gone is as subtle and shattering as its title. A powerful and haunting meditation on loss and grief, it also makes a case against the war in...
John Cusack | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
Naomi Klein: Companies like Blackwater and Halliburton are already roaming the world looking for new markets in other frail states - new governments to guard, new war zones to privatize.
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Alternet | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment