Sunday, January 11. The Film Forum is a Greenwich Village theater so solemn its lobby is painted black and its fare consists largely of documentaries. Going there seems less like an outing...
Movies from Film Forum, 09/19/02A new independent film called Hell House is beginning to get a lot of attention from mainstream and religious media critics. It is a documentary about a sort of shock-theatre...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/31/02This week's number one box office hit—it made $22.8 million this weekend—is not intended as a narrative of any sort. And it is not intended for any honorable...
Movies from Film Forum, 08/01/02Robert Evans's documentary The Kid Stays in the Pictureexplores his own successes and failures as a Hollywood producer. (Evans produced such classics as The Godfather,...
Movies from Film Forum, 03/21/02Trembling Before G-d is a new, provocative documentary about the dilemma of gay and lesbian Jews who remain committed to their Orthodox or Hasidic traditions.Doug Cummings...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/23/02Cliff Vaughn (Ethics Daily) says Bowling for Columbine, now available on DVD, is still worth seeing. Michael Moore's documentary about the problems of gun ownership, violence,...
Movies from Film Forum, 09/12/02Many Christians complain that filmmakers do not spend enough screen time taking faith-especially Christianity-seriously. It is worth noting, then, that a new documentary...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/14/02Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin (Cinema in Focus) praise the new documentary Family Fundamentals, a film that focuses on the experience of three homosexuals and their troubled...
Ed Driscoll TREKKIES UPDATE: As I said here, we watched Trekkies earlier this week. The Digital Bits has an extensive interview with the film's director, Roger Nygard, including how the strange...
Ed Driscoll Roger Ebert buries The Last Waltz,which is being released to theaters as part of its 25th anniversary: Drugs are possibly involved. Memoirs recalling the filming report that cocaine was...
Ed Driscoll ROGER SIMON ON FAHRENHEIT 911:Now I know I will be criticized for making this statement without seeing the film (perhaps fairly). But I did see the trailer the other night and what is...
By Debbie Schlussel
Mark Twain, once said, “There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
But Twain lived in the 19th Century. In the 21st Century, there are lies, damn lies, and Michael...
Ed Driscoll You can learn a lot about a movie critic by comparing how he reviewed Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ with what he wrote about Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.UPDATE: Make that...
Michael Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9/11" – My review will be in the
upcoming Aug 2 edition of The
American Conservative (available to Electronic
Edition...
More on Moore: Another excerpt from my review of "Fahrenheit
9/11" in the upcoming issue of The
American Conservative (subscribe
here):
Of course, the...
Even More on Moore: From my American
Conservative review of "Fahrenheit 9/11:"
Moore utterly ignores the Administration’s tragicomic infatuation...
Ed Driscoll First Oliver Stone--and now Michael Moore: Fahrenheit 9/11 to be broadcast on Cuban TV.On the other hand: how many Cubans actually own TVs (that work)? class="pages"> ...
What if, some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you...
After publishing Garance Franke-Ruta’s smear of me, The American Prospect is now threatening legal action against anybody who “reproduces” an old article accusing her...
AFTER SPENDING THREE MONTHS ON an investigation that must have rung up hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours, the team of lawyers hired by CBS to investigate its scandalously spurious report...
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