The Rubber Room serves as an ideal, if disheartening, companion piece to the documentary Waiting for ‘Superman.’ That 2010 film illustrated the folly of many modern education policies. The Rubber Room, now available on iTunes and Amazon on Demand, zeroes
The cover of Rolling Stone was once reserved for the newest bands, the hottest singer-songwriters or the pop culture phenoms grabbing the country by the scruff of its neck. By using that once revered space for an alleged terrorist, the
Hollywood occasionally feels the need to makes flawed figures into heroes. Consider the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, which made the titular porn titan into a towering figure in the free speech movement. Later this year, The Fifth
Bruce Springsteen burnished his liberal bona fides this week by turning a portion of his Ireland concert into a slam against the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Springsteen, a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama, dedicated one of the most incendiary
The Fast & Furious franchise is powered by more than nitrous oxide. Its diverse cast of characters makes it a demographic-friendly way to draw as big a crowd as possible. And if the millions of tickets sold so far are
The Conjuring, the newest scare-fest from director James Wan of Saw fame, features floating apparitions, blood-curdling screams and a family taunted by demonic spirits. That makes it all the more puzzling that the faith-based marketing group Grace Hill Media is
Stephen Colbert must be drinking deep from the mainstream media well. The host of The Colbert Report played the race card Monday night in discussing the George Zimmerman acquittal, apparently not realizing that the accused was Hispanic. You can’t blame the
Adam Carolla turned a terrestrial radio pink slip into a podcast revolution, but he wasn’t as quick a study in the film world. Carolla’s 2007 comedy The Hammer wowed critics and showed a softer side to a persona cultivated on
HBO viewers weren’t exactly salivating over the prospect of a second season of The Newsroom. Aaron Sorkin’s liberal showcase returned Sunday night, and the ratings were only slightly better than the show’s 2012 debut. It still could only hold roughly
Director Oliver Stone has a bone to pick with director Kathryn Bigelow. Stone isn’t showing a professional jealousy streak with Bigelow, who won an Oscar for directing 2008’s The Hurt Locker, but rather reinforcing his brand as an unrelenting critic
The LEGO Movie is the latest example of Hollywood drumming anti-capitalist messages into its youthful audience. Conservatives decried the 2011 Muppets reboot for making an oil baron as the enemy. A year later, The Lorax did the same with far
What connects such seemingly disparate summer movies asThe Purge, The Lone Ranger and White House Down? They all contain liberal themes, and they’ve suffered at the box office as a result. So says Kyle Smith at The New York Post.
Death by China may be Peter Navarro’s directorial debut, but he’s already learning how the movie criticism game works. Navarro’s film, available now on DVD and soon via Netflix, tracks how unfair trade practices embraced by China are killing American
Adam Carolla gives Hollywood a dollop of credit regarding its cozy new ties to the repressive Chinese film market. It reeks of hypocrisy for an industry built on free expression to cater to the country’s whims, but at least it’s
Director Oliver Stone and the ACLU have teamed up to decry NSA domestic spying tactics as a stain on the country’s legacy of freedom. Stone brings up Watergate and the country’s earliest days under the thumb of the British monarchy
The average movie takes several years to complete from concept to finished film, making it all but impossible to synchronize a publicity campaign to current events. Some films just get lucky in that regard. Take Fruitvale Station, a heralded, fact-based
The prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial has been having a tough time in recent days, and even mainstream media outlets acknowledge that the defendant stands an excellent chance of acquittal. Some celebrities long ago decided Zimmerman was guilty of
Actor Chris Evans of The Avengers fame is richer than most. The handsome star is part of two major Marvel franchises–the aforementioned super-group series as well as Captain America. He recently plunked down $3.52 million for a nearly 4,600 square
The upcoming monster movie Pacific Rim looks like everything a summer movie aspires to be–big, loud and chock full of fun special effects. The film, opening nationwide July 12, also includes an environmental scare message that puts it in ideological lockstep
The University of Denver is honoring former President George W. Bush with a humanitarian award come September, but a group of students and professors is demanding the school reverse course. The university, currently embroiled in a mascot controversy that has
Jay Leno and David Letterman represent late night TV’s biggest rivals. Letterman’s decision not to mock the Commander in Chief may be the deciding factor in their final months of head-to-head competition. In short, Leno is suddenly cleaning Letterman’s clock,
The Lone Ranger got whupped by an animated sequel on July 4, and the news kept getting worse for the wannabe franchise. The western earned $48.9 million over the five-day holiday weekend compared to Despicable Me 2’s $142 million haul. Those
Jim Carrey is truly sorry for firing off so many vile comments at defenders of the Second Amendment–months after his vulgar words first made national news. Carrey grabbed headlines earlier this year with a series of nasty, anti-gun tweets as
Oliver Stone spent July 4 roasting his home country, not hot dogs. Stone, the far-left filmmaker and apologist for liberal leaders worldwide, blasted the U.S. in a public appearance to promote his critically assailed series The Untold History of the
Many celebrities are celebrating the Fourth of July by wishing their country a very happy birthday. It’s a day where partisanship is pushed aside for good ol’ fashioned patriotism. Bette Midler is taking a different approach. The Parental Guidance star
The Lone Ranger is no match for a group of nattering yellow creatures known to film fans as “Minions.” The western reboot, a P.C. affair driven by the creative team behind the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, is losing the
The social media giant Facebook initially said it would not remove a page dubbed “RIOT for Trayvon” claiming it “doesn’t violate our community standard on credible threat of violence.” Later, the site apparently yanked the page but left another called
Sony is inviting U.S. military members to see its new action film White House Down for free on July 4. Come for the brainless thrills and Channing Tatum’s heroism, but do stay for the slams against defense contractors and the
The Lone Ranger opens with a sly storytelling hook that acknowledges Hollywood’s checkered past regarding its depiction of Native Americans. That apparently wasn’t enough for the new reboot, which mocks the “white man,” targets a capitalist and casts aspersions at the
Bette Midler is spending the days before the Fourth of July blasting the left’s favorite target. Midler, who routinely uses her Twitter account to bash conservatives, outdid herself today when she accused the Koch brothers of un-American impulses. The veteran
It seems obvious that Alec Baldwin gets pass after pass from the liberal Thought Police crowd because he’s one of their own. Hard to argue with that, especially when you compare Baldwin’s vile tirades against lesser acts by, say, director
Perhaps movie goers weren’t in the mood to see the Scandal-in-Chief at cineplexes this weekend. White House Down, the new film chockablock with liberal talking points and a stand-in for President Barack Obama, underwhelmed during its first weekend in theaters.
GLAAD, the organization dedicated to defending the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, acted swiftly after learning of Alec Baldwin’s latest homophobic rant. The group allowed Baldwin to use its web site to apologize and/or attempt damage control,
Musician John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting fame may make his living with a guitar, but he understands how Hollywood works. Ondrasik sent out a simple truth via Twitter today, something far too few people in the entertainment industry will
Some of Hollywood’s biggest players rallied around President Barack Obama’s re-election, a leader whose signature first-term initiative was the health care overhaul known as ObamaCare. Hollywood is expected to play a role in ObamaCare’s rollout, with several celebrities being asked
Director Ron Maxwell captured the intensity of 19th century combat with his Civil War epics Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. Along the way his thinking drifted from the bloody battlefields to the folks back home, the civilians devastated by the
Copperhead is a Civil War drama without bloodshed, blazing muskets or epic battle sequences. Its story is more quiet, but no less profound. The new film, from the director of Gods and Generals and Gettysburg, takes a different perspective on
The facts are certainly not all in regarding the trial of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin last year. Don’t tell that to FX comedian Kamau Bell. He’s already figured it all out. Case dismissed. The
The backup singers spotlighted in 20 Feet from Stardom have more in common than beautiful voices. Many got their start belting out songs in churches across the country. Now, the studio behind the indie documentary are asking those churches to
Texas Gov. Rick Perry endured a fallacious attack on his character from The Washington Post two years ago, one that attempted to paint him as racist for having a family connection to a 1,000 acre property which once had the “n-word”
