Phil Nugent, Nerve.com. October 17, 2009. We can learn a lot about shifting mores by charting the careers of those caught in the spotlight with their zippers down.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. A film about Charles Darwin that is being shown throughout the world can't find a U.S. distributor.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 29, 2009. Joe is back yet again with his new movie and assorted products -- but the world he inhabits this time is completely sponged of our current predicaments abroad.
Ellen Komp, AlterNet. July 15, 2009. Hollywood shrink characters increasingly take mind-expanding drugs; a reflection of the growing use of psychedelics in medical research.
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.
Richard A. Friedman, The American Prospect. August 5, 2008. From Virginia Tech's Cho to Hannibal Lecter, exaggerated portraits of mental illness show how much we have yet to learn about
psychiatric disorders.
Melissa Silverstein, Huffington Post. July 31, 2008. Katherine Heigl regularly speaks up about sexism in Hollywood. For that, she is labeled ungrateful and her career has been declared dead.
Natalie Krinsky, The Frisky. June 9, 2008. When are we going to see a slacker, overweight female lead who's married to her bong score with a hot, successful dreamboat?
Melissa Silverstein, The Women's Media Center. June 3, 2008. Sex and the City killed at the box office. Maybe now Hollywood will stop only making movies geared at teen boys.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 22, 2008. In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.
Dennis Perrin, Huffington Post. May 7, 2008. The air-brushed Hollywood stars that populate PSAs aren't likely to tackle truly controversial issues any time soon.
Jeffrey Ressner, Politico. May 1, 2008. If there's one thing Hollywood heavy-hitters excel at, it's shamelessly manipulating audiences. Why don't politicians take advantage of their talents?
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. April 21, 2008. Studio heads are bewildered that big-budget chick flicks are bombing. Maybe they should stop making movies about rich, thin, white women.
David Moberg, In These Times. March 24, 2008. The Writers Guild strike that ended in February proved the power of organizing by creative workers. Now, actors in Hollywood may use the same script.
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.
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!
Kate Connolly, The Observer UK. October 8, 2007. Affordable rents and cultural buzz are luring young Americans and big movie stars to the reborn German capital.
