For the first time in my lifetime we are faced with a potential presidential administration that is prepared to overturn Roe V. Wade. The drastic changes to the Supreme Court are worth worrying about. After watching Steven Spielberg’s best film in twenty years about how Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet barely pushed through the 13th amendment reminded me how the Republican...
Yes, it’s 2012. But believe it or not, “conservatism” has overtaken the Grand Old Party. They give lip service to freedom and all of that but what they really want to do is control women by controlling their reproductive rights. These are our rights. We fought for them. Now Meryl Streep, Tea Leoni, Amy Poehler and others are taking it to the streets....
One more politically oriented post and then we’ll turn away, ok? Hard to argue that politics doesn’t have a place on a movie site when America’s most revered Oscar-winning movie legends are doing prop comedy endorsements, conventions are stage-managed by Hollywood producers, and movies like 2016: Obama’s America somehow exist. Campaign ads —...
The Obama “documentary” has now earned a whopping $12 million. It was made for roughly $1.5 million (with donations from conservative billionaires). It has been clear from the Republican National Convention that they are pulling no punches. Their campaign, this “documentary” and all of the seething pockets of hate that have been unleashed (a...