Catharsis of Horror
The horror genre is serving as a catharsis for the real-life horror we face daily waking up to the Trump ...
Tag: politics and cinema
Film Industry Meets the Hive Mind – How “Identity Politics” Shapes Box Office and the Oscar Race
Identity politics is a term used by Bernie Sanders and others on the fringe Right and Left as a loathsome ...
Joint Statement by All Five Directors Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, 2017
As the authoritarian Trump regime rears up in spiteful revenge against America's creative artists by slashing federal funding for the ...
Meryl Streep tackles Trump at the Golden Globes with all the elegance he lacks
Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech leaves us speechless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyGmyEby40 “I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me, I’ve lost ...
Spike Lee responds to NYC police brutality. Again and again.
"I can't breathe... I can't breathe... I can't breath..." Eric Garner said that nine times as a half dozen New ...
Senator Ben Affleck? Rumors swirl around potential political career.
Ben Affleck was in Washington D.C. today to testify before the House Armed Services Committee about security in the Democratic Republic ...
Great Leaders, Politics and Hollywood
The shades of US presidents, real and imagined, have always weaved in and out of Hollywood films. This year, Steven ...
The Politics of Perception: Think Outside the Ballot Box
Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future ...
1912 campaign ad highlights same concerns we face today
Film School Rejects has dug up one of the first political ads ever filmed when voters had a choice between ...
Kris Tapley looks at election year politics through Oscar’s lens
Kris Tapley had a chat with Sasha last week about the impact of presidential politics on Oscar voters and came ...
"Your Bloody British Fetish": Hollywood's U.K. myths
UK author and historian Dominick Sandbrook voices his own dismay that "the Redcoats have conquered Hollywood," once again: The success ...
Debate Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE Sneak preview of tonight's 3rd and final presidential debate. (Thanks to Marc Ambinder via Kieth Olbermann)
“It’s like a really bad Disney movie.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk Skip it if you're not interested. And if anybody has a clip of an Oscar-winner expressing reservations about Joe ...
Isn’t she lovely?
One of the best, most moving, intimate, rousing, humble, and beautiful speeches I've heard from a convention platform. Maybe she ...
Celebrity Politics Mashup
It's topical, sensationalist, relevant, quite funny, and it's deeper than you'd expect. It's hot. And you don't have to wait ...
“W” trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ "W" - Catch the crazy antics of Junior, Laura, Babs and Poppy! When it comes to family squabbling, this ...
Cultural Cartoonification
What's fair for the goose, is fair for the geezer. I was planning to expand this concept into something about ...
John Cusack speaks out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GpY2OPxBc Keith Olbermann: When celebrities and performers get involved in politics, obviously there can be an impact -- the obvious ...
This is not the restaurant I recommend. Coincidentally I have been here on a weekend fling with Hugh Jackman. He…
Everybody wrote a lot about this film, but I'd like to single out somebody who delivers such a complex and…
I love the smell of misogyny in the morning.
I love ZDT, I forget to think about it because it so rarely comes up, but it's definitely one of…
IS Shirley about Shirley MacLaine or Shirley Temple or maybe even the mother of the Partridge family. (Don't worry, I…
