Actress Gwyneth Paltrow now calls England home, but it didn’t stop her from weighing in on the unpopular Obamacare legislation about to kick in stateside. In short, the Goop creator is all for it. Paltrow, soon to be seen in
Writers are taught to avoid cliches in their art, but Oscar-nominated scribe Aaron Sorkin simply can’t help himself. Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom packs plenty of overt, and obvious, anti-conservative cliches in an average episode. Sunday’s season finale stuffed as
Zombies and meth are doing wonders for AMC’s bottom line. The cable channel’s The Walking Dead is a ratings powerhouse, and now the final installments of the critically hailed Breaking Bad are drawing a sizable crowd. Breaking Bad, which stars
The mainstream media is eager to have another one-sided discussion about gun control in the wake of Monday’s Navy Yard shooting. One fact quickly emerged from the biography of the man who killed 13 people in Washington, D.C., and it’s
Leonardo DiCaprio addresses his liberal leanings via projects like his 2007 documentary The 11th Hour, an alarmist film about the environmental disasters awaiting us. The star’s other film projects (The Great Gatsby, The Departed) generally lean toward mainstream entertainment. The
The new documentary Informant lets Brandon Darby share his story of working with the FBI to help prevent a pair of radical leftists from pulling off a terrorist attack. The film gives the critics of Darby, a contributor to Breitbart
Most Americans, and even some members of the liberal mainstream press, are watching President Barack Obama’s unsteady leadership regarding Syria with alarm. Hugh Jackman, best known for playing Wolverine in numerous X-Men films, sees a man who is lonely and
Miley Cyrus thinks she made “history” by using a foam finger in a sexual fashion and sticking out her tongue during her recent Video Music Awards performance. What Cyrus manage to do is making many television viewers irate with her
It wasn’t long ago when a comedian had to work clean to make his or her way to Johnny Carson’s couch on The Tonight Show set. Today, even late night mainstays like Jon Stewart curse during their televised routines, even
It’s a sad celebrity ritual. Tragedy strikes somewhere in the U.S., and a star uses Twitter to politicize it for their pet cause. Henry Winkler of Happy Days fame joined the club earlier today. The actor rushed to Twitter today
Halloween isn’t for another six weeks, but a new horror film made movie goers think Jack O’ Lanterns and candy corn all the same. Insidious: Chapter 2, the second shocker directed by The Conjuring’s James Wan this year, scored a
Documentary filmmaker Jamie Meltzer is no fan of the Michael Moore School of Storytelling. Meltzer, who teaches documentary filmmaking at Stanford University, has little patience for films which tell the viewer what to think or preach to the proverbial choir.
Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have an advantage over their peers when it comes to political humor. The sketch performers are comedians of color, allowing them to satirize President Barack Obama without being accused of being racially insensitive. The duo ignored that advantage
The upcoming documentary After Tiller introduces audiences to four doctors who perform late-term abortions, the kind of procedure that convinced anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder to kill Dr. George Tiller. The film, in select theaters Sept. 20, examines the controversial practice in
Jon Stewart may have taken the summer off from his Comedy Central gig on The Daily Show, but apparently he was keeping up on the president’s string of broken promises. This week, Stewart laced into President Barack Obama for his
Podcast king Adam Carolla says few things epitomize the freedoms Americans enjoy than the local beach. “It’s the shore, it’s how most people came here … after traveling long distances in the ocean,” Carolla told his podcast audience this week.
Faux news man Stephen Colbert served up some faux facts this week. The liberal funnyman’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central tried to swat at the legend of President Ronald Reagan but used some fuzzy recollections to do so. Here’s
Bill Maher hardly qualifies as one of President Barack Obama’s toughest critics. So the Real Time with Bill Maher host was open to being persuaded that military action against Syria is a justifiable path, as Obama suggests. Maher watched Obama’s
Attention Saturday Night Live writers: This is how you satirize President Barack Obama. The Second City Network takes both the president and his glassy-eyed followers to task in a biting new video about Obama’s heated Syria rhetoric. Help Kickstart World
Move over Dexter and Hannibal, there’s a new serial killer coming to the small screen. FX is prepping a series based on Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, the raw novel which became a 2000 film starring Christian Bale as the
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin on July 13, and only now is Sarah Silverman broaching the subject with humor. Better put the word humor in square quotes. Two months in, the best Silverman
Miley Cyrus is going to keep taking her clothes off for our bemusement, but this time she’s latched on to a catchy tune in the process. Cyrus’s new video for Wrecking Ball, a doomed love song from her upcoming album,
You can’t blame Alec Baldwin for trying to fit in with his new MSNBC colleagues. The star of the low-rated 30 Rock is about to join the low-rated news channel, and he must be aware of the hawkish tone MSNBC
Informant might be the most fair assessment of Brandon Darby’s journey from far-left radical to New Media conservative one could realistically expect from the liberal film realm. The documentary, a more balanced production than the thematically similar 2011 hit piece
Anti-war celebrities spoke loud–and often–against the U.S. going to war with Iraq roughly a decade ago. That was then, and the Commander in Chief had an “R” next to his name. Today, with President Barack Obama trying to rally a
Count Cher as one of the few politically active celebrities to weigh in on President Barack Obama’s war stance against Syria. Cher routinely uses social media to defend the president and/or slam conservatives in the most callous fashion she can
Bill Maher has had the far-left celebrity field mostly to himself Friday nights. Now, the Real Time with Bill Maher host has some serious competition for progressive viewers courtesy of MSNBC’s latest hire. Up Late with Alec Baldwin, set to
The creative community, by and large, pulled out all the stops to get President Barack Obama elected–twice. Now, its denizens are experiencing some of the fallout of that support–namely, less jobs and fewer health insurance options. The motion picture industry
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scored a blow against free speech when it slashed funds that prevented a pair of right-leaning journalists from speaking on campus. The American people quickly struck back. Journalist Katie Pavlich and Ann
The old gang isn’t getting back together, apparently. Anti-war celebrities like Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Neil Young and Susan Sarandon railed against the Bush administration throughout the 2000s. They spoke out in every media venue possible, signed a
At 76, Jack Nicholson is no longer at the top of every film producer’s wish list. It’s “Get me Gosling … or Pitt … or Denzel.” Yet news that the acting icon could have quietly retired due to memory loss concerns,
David Letterman may be the most pro-President Barack Obama comedian walking the late night beat, but even the CBS host has to slam a flip-flop when he sees one. And, in the case of Obama’s new and improved position regarding
A California university is adding one more “R” to the essential school elements–reading, writing, arithmetic and reanimation. University of California, Irvine is bringing a new course to its online offerings centered on the AMC hit series The Walking Dead. The
The Hope and Change candidate has become the “He’s really trying” politician in the eyes of Oscar winner Robert De Niro. The erstwhile Raging Bull weighed in on President Barack Obama during an interview with Du Jour Magazine. Rather than
Miley Cyrus is speaking out about her headline–and crotch–grabbing routine at the VMAs, trumpeting that she made “history” with her sexual antics. After all, the 20-year-old insists, she was simply doing what the culture demands. I don’t pay attention to
Chris Isaak is the anti-Miley Cyrus, a role he wears like one of his shiny, spangled suits. Isaak, a road warrior who played Denver Friday night, represents everything Cyrus isn’t. He’s a consummate pro relying on singing prowess, polished stage
Comedians have meekly argued that there’s not much to mock about President Barack Obama. They have a point. What’s funny about a booming economy, crystal clear leadership, government transparency, an avalanche of new jobs and a Middle East finally shedding
Tom Hanks has increasingly strayed from his apolitical public persona, but it hasn’t hurt his appeal with the movie going public. Yet. Hanks came in first place as the country’s “best-liked movie star” according to a new poll by Public
Director Christopher Nolan cagily denied his Batman film trilogy had a conservative streak. The trilogy’s take on terrorism and an Occupy Wall Street-styled foe spoke to GOP-friendly audiences all the same. Nolan’s next feature, a hush-hush project set for a
Japanese filmmakers in the 1950s used the country’s anxiety over nuclear weapons to bring Godzilla to life. Flash forward more than half a century, and an American film wants to show us the downside of the fracking process. Cue the
