The Jew Who Wasn't There...

Big questions about faith, God, and mortality surround small people and the even smaller vagaries of fate and circumstance in the work of the Coen Brothers. However, all those big questions are posed not as religious or philosophical queries but more as punchlines...

Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover...

After a long summer of re-runs and nothing entertaining to watch but old people demonstrate their senility at town hall meetings, finally the days have begun to shorten, a crisp chill is carried on the air and network and cable television again turns their...

It was a bittersweet bit of kismet last night as I saw the news that Patrick Swayze had passed away as I was perusing the Internet for material I could use in a possible review of Steel Dawn, (aka Post-Apocalyptic Road...

Tim Pawlenty:

KING: Let me move on to another issue, another big issue on the president's plate, where, in Congress, he's largely getting more Republican support than Democratic support, and that's Afghanistan.

George Will, a very influential conservative columnist wrote this earlier in the week, "Forces...

Alien Apartheid

It took until the doldrums of the late-August dumping grounds for the best movie of the summer, if not the year--made for a paltry $30 million and starring zero-name to non-professional South African actors--to creep in under the radar and absolutely embarrass/destroy the bloated...

Death Trippin'...

"That was good." Says Staff Sergeant Will James (Jeremy Renner) as he exhales a freshly lit cigarette in a near post-coital moment, after pulling apart and defusing a car wired with a half-dozen or so artillery shells stuffed in its trunk. This steady rhythm of the...

WASHINGTON DC -- CNN cable news pundit and radio host, Lou Dobbs, has joined the growing chorus of voices concerned about the legitimacy of the Obama presidency, based on lingering questions regarding the President's birth certificate and status as a natural-born U.S. citizen. "There are questions here, folks,"...

Tommy Gun, you ain't happy less you got one...

There is a moment in almost every Michael Mann film when the camera lingers just over the shoulder of one of our protagonists, filling the screen with the back of their head and maybe a bit...

Last Wednesday afternoon, I decided to take advantage of a brief window of merely overcast, but not raining weather here in NYC and visit the long-awaited, much-hyped, and recently opened High Line Park. For those not in the know, the High Line is about a mile and half of...

Manchilds in the Promised Land...

What is the state of the American bro? Hollywood has been preoccupied with this question as of late, offering several recent, more sentimental, anthropological studies (mostly with Paul Rudd: Knocked Up, Role Models, I Love You, Man, etc.) that seek to examine the...

In the course of reading review after review and interview after interview about Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and its star Sasha Grey, one invariably gets to a point where the writer, usually a middle age man, pauses to sheepishly assure their readers that they've

While speaking to reporters, a gaffe made by VP Biden may have accidentally distorted the space-time continuum.

WASHINGTON -- Long known for his penchant for verbal gaffes and slip-ups, Vice President Biden may have endangered national security as well as permanently altered the course of human history...

"Character" (seen above) created by radical performance artist to, "confront issues of gender, patriarchy and the mainstreaming of authoritarian politics in America."

Minneapolis MN...

Increase in portly, pig-like humans on television has officials at the CDC concerned about possible epidemic. Symptoms include intense jowlification, bloated self-regard, and fever-inducing levels of absurd braying and snorting. (Fatal case seen above.)

Atlanta GA -- Officials at the Centers for...

Both amateur and professional casting directors alike are abuzz with the glorious possibilities contained in the news that HBO Films has optioned the upcoming book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. Game Change is written by...

Washington DC -- A Spanish court has agreed to consider a criminal case against six former Bush Administration officials over allegations they helped craft the legal means with which to torture prisoners in US custody. With arrest warrants likely to be issued, this criminal complaint brought before one of Europe's...

In the past few weeks, wingnut America has been going through a rough break-up with two of its most visible and attractive young women, and by "most visible" I really mean the only young women even tangentially associated with the Republican party, conservative movement, or whatever...

Minneapolis, MN -- Speaking Tuesday night at the University of Minnesota's "Great Conversations" event, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh made news by letting slip allegations that the Executive branch has been running a covert military operation independent of Congressional oversight, code-named "The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad." In response to...

When Ayn Rand's allegorical novel Atlas Shrugged was first published in 1957, it imagined a scenario where the "producers" of society, the creative geniuses whose innovation is the engine that runs capitalism, are led by John Galt, to go on strike against the "looters...

It's been said that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, but it's become increasingly clear that it's also Hollywood for people that are no longer marketable in Hollywood. I speak of course about rumors that Val Kilmer is seriously considering a run for Governor of his home state of...