James Rocchi, Huffington Post. April 15, 2008. If you haven't been asked to pay for a war with money or blood, why would you buy a ticket to watch a simulation of it?
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: MediaCulture. March 24, 2008. Back home in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a soldier refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 15, 2008. Anti-choice nuts infiltrate the Hollywood premiere of "Horton Hears a Who" and chant slogan at its stars and their children.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: MediaCulture. March 3, 2008. "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do.
Gideon Yago, Huffington Post AlterNet: MediaCulture. March 1, 2008. Check it out. It's worth the $10 bucks and who knows, you may even leave the theater with some ideas of how to start a movement of your own.
Josh Bolotsky, Screening Liberally AlterNet: MediaCulture. February 14, 2008. Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand.
Julianne Hing, RaceWire AlterNet: MediaCulture. February 8, 2008. Disney’s suggestions about where folks of color belong in the American fairytale narrative are egregiously offensive.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 22, 2008. The Academy Award nominees include four progressive-themed documentaries and outspoken Hollywood liberals like George Clooney.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: MediaCulture. January 21, 2008. Stone, a vocal critic of the Bush administration's handling of Iraq, is putting together a feature film project about the current president.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: MediaCulture. January 14, 2008. Hopefully Hollywood will take note and realize that it's not a profit-killer to have the female lead with an actual personality.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: MediaCulture. January 7, 2008. George Clooney is credited with encouraging other movie stars to boycott the Golden Globes, Oscars and other award shows. Ha--right on!
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2007. If a movie's entire purpose is to titillate misogynists then the standards get a lot looser.
Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. November 28, 2007. Former Rep. Chip Pickering appeared at a Pentecostal gathering where theories against evolution were cheered and the Chief Justice of the Mississippi State Supreme Court declared that America "will always be a Christian nation until the good lord returns."
Paddy, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. November 27, 2007. The film followa Tomas Young, an Iraq War vet paralyzed from a bullet to the spine, on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. November 20, 2007. Matt Corley: Mark Cuban says the point of the ad buy was to see what O'Reilly's real motivation for attacking the film was.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2007. Lindsay Beyerstein: The Alliance of Television & Motion Picture Producers' position is illogical, greedy and unfair.
Adam Howard, AlterNet. November 5, 2007. Man From Plains is a moving, redemptive portrait of a president and a presidency that has been unfairly maligned and reduced to a punchline for far too long.
Josh Bolotsky, AlterNet: Video. October 17, 2007. Through the story of Herold Noel, a homeless Iraq war veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living out of his car in Brooklyn, "When I Came Home" reveals a failing system and the veteran’s struggle to survive after returning from the war.