August 22, 2008 – 11:32 am
On Monday, I’m flying to Denver to spend a couple of days hanging around the Democratic National Convention before heading up to Telluride on Thursday. If I was reading that sentence unawares, two questions would inevitably come to mind. First: “Why, Karina, are you going to a political event when you have a movie blog [...]
August 20, 2008 – 2:40 pm
California may have spent the last five years under the rule of a Republican movie star, but news that major industry players are anything but super-lefty liberals still seems to strike many as a surprise. Responding to a story in which it’s casually mentioned that Dennis Hopper is expected to attend the Republican National Convention, [...]
August 13, 2008 – 6:01 pm
Never one to pass up an opportunity for bullying, Michael Moore has posted excerpt from his new book on his website, entitled “How to Blow It.” It’s a snide, six point “blueprint from the Democrats’ past losing campaigns” to ensure that “the Democratic Party establishment, can help elect John Sidney McCain III to a four-year [...]
Steven Boone talks to Hunter S. Thompson’s documentarian about, among other things, how the writer “got very depressed when Bush won in ‘04 and not long after that he committed suicide.”
February 5, 2008 – 4:00 pm
I’ll be MIA for the rest of the afternoon––I have to record a podcast and then go vote––so while I’m gone, check out this terrifying trailer for the original The Manchurian Candidate. I haven’t seen this film since shortly before Jonathan Demme’s remake came out (that film, by the way, was apparently the highest grossing [...]
January 11, 2008 – 4:00 pm
In this edition: CLOVERFIELD, David Lynch, The Fall of the Golden Globes, several blatant attempts to cash in on interest in the election, and much more.
January 9, 2008 – 10:17 am
From a McClatchy story from yesterday afternoon, long before Hillary Clinton’s “unexpected” win in the New Hampshire primary:
Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, a New Hampshire resident who’s endorsed Obama, said in an interview the day before the primary…that, if elected, Obama had the potential to be a Lincoln or a Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“He is the [...]
January 9, 2008 – 8:48 am
The pros and cons of The Fall of The Globes.
January 8, 2008 – 2:31 pm
Today in election-related conspiracy theories: Viggo Mortensen backs Dennis Kucinich’s contention that Mickey Mouse is trying to keep him out of the White House.
