When I attended an early screening of Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller, Straw Dogs, I was most curious to see how the director handled the infamous rape scene.
Given the sheer scale and complexity of the Presidency in modern times, it's no surprise that a host of great films have explored the nature of our country's highest office.
Perhaps his clean-cut, boyish image obscured my ability to recognize the astonishing talent he possessed from the start. Regardless, I could see it now: Jeff Bridges has always been a lot more than a pretty face.
If Roger Ebert's throat cancer -- devastating and unforgiving -- has not been able to stop him, then nothing as petty as the collapse of one of the nation's stalwart journalistic enterprises is going to either.
It never crossed my mind that I would ever speak or write negatively about the work of a fellow filmmaker. I am sure the makers of The Reader are not deniers. But they are helping those who are.
In today's kid-friendly and fantasy-drenched multiplexes Nothing But The Truth stands out as that rarest of things -- a quality drama for grownups.
There was one thing in particular that actress Kate Beckinsale made clear at the Washington, DC premiere of Rod Lurie's Nothing But The Truth: "This is not the Judith Miller story."
One critic wrote that my film Nothing but the Truth, a thriller about how far a journalist will go to protect a source, goes "off the liberal rails." However, the fight to get a shield law is itself a non-partisan battle.
Why do so many members of the military who decide on continuing in public service join the Democratic Party?
