Lists–of anything–never fail to cause controversy. Whenever someone or some group declares something–a movie, a song, a person–to be the best or worst of its kind, a flurry of rebuttals...
How was it possible for a small group of businessmen to deceive intelligent reporters, colleagues, and Wall Street analysts? If one believes Alex Gibney, writer and director of the new...
I’ve always been told that art and politics don’t mix. But I’m starting to question this conventional wisdom. Sometimes politics could use more beauty and subtlety. And sometimes art could...
The Oscar nominations were announced last week, and, as in every year, everyone has his list of “Movies That Were Robbed.” Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is on a lot...
Some people are already finished their holiday shopping. You know the type–list made in February, presents purchased by October, package mailed by Thanksgiving. They probably even hit the after-Christmas sales...
So Michael Moore didn’t unseat George W. Bush. The director had said that the explicit aim of Fahrenheit 9/11, his documentary focusing on the Iraq war, was to defeat the president....
