Wajahat Ali, Huffington Post. August 29, 2008. "Traitor" tries to combine blockbuster plot mechanics with important, philosophical musings about our complex post 9-11 world: it fails.
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: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. February 14, 2008. Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand.
Julianne Hing, RaceWire AlterNet: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. 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: Media and Technology. 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.