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Iraq Doc DVD Targets Redacted For Sales Goal

April 17, 2008 – 11:15 am

But anything Brian DePalma’s last movie did, virtually anyone could do better.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in DVDs, Documentary, Politics | Comments (6)

Moving Image Institute: Andrew Sarris & Molly Haskell

April 16, 2008 – 10:03 am

The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Culture/art | Comments (5)

George Bush Movie Even Sillier Than We Could Have Hoped!

April 1, 2008 – 12:43 pm

Who knew Oliver Stone was making a cartoon?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Politics | Comments (2)

Vets Weigh In On STOP-LOSS, Iraq Flms

March 25, 2008 – 4:14 pm

There seems to be a lot of eye-rolling over Kimberley Pierce’s Stop-Loss, as if there’s some kind of collective embarrassment over the fact that this highly-stylized policy polemic––literally, an MTV Film––is seeing the light of day so many months after last fall’s D.O.A. Iraq movie wave. Mainstream reviews have so far been mixed, and blog [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Politics | Comments (1)

Iraq Films Saying Nothing New

March 24, 2008 – 10:46 am

In this longish but fascinating video companion piece to his Atlantic story on how Hollywood has reverted to 70s-style dialectics in order to talk about current global conflicts, Ross Douthat explains why the recent wave of Iraq movies haven’t connected with critics or audiences. The problem, in part, is that “Hollywood hasn’t found anything new [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Politics | Comments (3)

Stop-Loss at SXSW

January 28, 2008 – 9:54 am

Is the problem with Iraq movies that “realistic as hell” characters make bad movie heroes?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, Politics, SXSW 2008 | Comments (3)

Masters of Horror May Face Network Horror

September 26, 2007 – 12:02 pm

Something even scarier than the Geico caveman sitcom may be coming to primetime network TV. Ha!

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film marketing and distribution, Horror | Comments (0)