To Jon Stewart and many fellow liberals, the Iraq War was all about the United States’ zest for oil, not to improve global security, free a country from tyranny or punish Saddam Hussein for treating UN mandates like so much
Comedy can leave a mark. Just ask progressive comedian Bill Maher. Maher graced Craig Ferguson’s desk on The Late Late Show Tuesday, and the Real Time with Bill Maher host was blindsided by a joke that clearly rankled him. Ferguson
Kristen Stewart no longer has the Twilight franchise to power her big screen career. Her next project should endear her to her industry peers all the same, given the blurb of information released Tuesday at Deadline.com. Stewart will headline Camp
The Middle Ages represents a dark chapter in human history, a time to be skipped over while concentrating on more pertinent parts of our collective past. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Providence College Professor of English Anthony
Netflix no longer has the streaming world to itself, what with Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime and Redbox crowding the space. Those competitors have yet to put so much as a dent on Netflix’s command of streaming content, according to a
InJustice is like a lawyer joke that draws tears, not laughter. The new documentary examines the damage tort lawyers, particularly the so-called King of Torts Dickie Scruggs, have had on our culture. In short, they’ve seriously damaged the public’s trust
Director Bryan Singer is a one-man publicity machine for his upcoming film X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film, a follow-up to the popular Marvel Comics prequel X-Men: First Class, features characters from that film as well as established players
Some of Jay-Z’s biggest hits aren’t exactly appropriate for young listeners. Think tracks like Big Pimpin’ and 99 Problems. That isn’t stopping a company which produces rap and rock-based lullaby covers from bringing Jay-Z into your toddler’s bedroom. Lullaby Renditions
Cynical industry watchers have already moved on from the disappointing box office returns for After Earth to the summer’s next potential dud–World War Z. The Brad Pitt zombie movie has been plagued by costly reshoots and other production woes, all
Alec Baldwin won’t let go of his Twitter battle with FrackNation director Phelim McAleer, but now the 30 Rock actor is trying to besmirch the late Andrew Breitbart along the way. Over the weekend, Baldwin threw a baseless charge as well
Director Kris Koenig got an accidental crash course in the Second Amendment while riding with a California sheriff for a regionally-based documentary. The law officer asked if Koenig had a concealed carry permit, a simple question which led to Koenig
The HBO series Sex and the City embraced not only casual sex but the glory of Manolo Blahnik shoes. That materialism irked Cynthia Nixon, who co-starred as the sensible Miranda on the long-running show (and subsequent movie franchise). The actress,
Indie bands like Madison Rising need the power of social media more than a Radiohead or Rolling Stones. So when the conservative rockers’ cover of The Star-Spangled Banner caught fire on sites like Facebook and Twitter last month it was very
After Earth may be the summer’s first bona-fide bomb. The science fiction feature, starring megastar Will Smith and his son, Jaden, was expected to at least compete with Fast & Furious 6 for the box office crown. Now those hopes
We’ve already seen audiences fleeing MSNBC, the network that religiously carries the Obama administration’s water, as a number of scandals rock the White House. Now, it looks like the long-running battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman is also being
Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig’s next comedy, Girl Most Likely, takes a page out of Hollywood’s dog-eared playbook. When in doubt, bash Bush. The Bridesmaids star plays a burned out woman who goes to live with her estranged mother
The East, opening in select cities May 31, follows a ragtag bunch of anarchists who deliberately target the higher ups at corporations for their negligence–or worse. It’s eco-terrorism 101. The stars of the film, Brit Marling and Ellen Page, apparently
Late night comics may be reticent to mock the President of the United States, but they can’t help pouncing on disgraced politician Anthony Weiner. USA Today offers a round-up of the best Weiner jokes, all coinciding with the former Congressman’s
Silly symbolism? Check. Emotion vs. reasoning? Yup. Must be another celebrity-backed political push. A gaggle of actors, including Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo and Julianne Moore, have signed on for the Fedoras for Fairness campaign to promote amnesty-style immigration reform. The fedora is
Amazon, the company hoping to join the crowded ranks of original content providers, will usher in its new era with a liberal political comedy which takes aim at conservatives. Alpha House, which stars John Goodman as one of several GOP
Singer Adam Levine is no one’s idea of a conservative. The musician and coach on the hit reality show The Voice despises Fox News and promised to “lose his shit” if President Barack Obama wasn’t re-elected last year. Still, the current
Podcast king Adam Carolla isn’t leaving California any time soon, but it’s not due to warm feelings for the party in power. The state is “a garden of Eden run by a bunch of snakes,” Carolla told the Hinderaker-Ward Experience,
French star Audrey Tautou of Amelie fame is as lovely as any actress no matter what country she may call home. Yet Tautou isn’t obsessed with Hollywood-style fame for a simple reason–no actress is beautiful enough for the industry’s current
Director Joss Whedon has a message for the 2013 graduating class–don’t listen to that hateful talk radio and feel sorry for those who do. Whedon, who wrote and directed the 2012 smash The Avengers, had the honor of delivering the
Director Steven Soderbergh famously said no movie studio would touch Behind the Candelabra, the biopic of late pianist Liberace, because the tale was “too gay.” HBO had no problem with such content, and now the pay channel is reaping the
The latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise earned $317 million across the globe in just its first full weekend in theaters. Credit those muscle cars, the explosions, the bulging biceps and the shorter than short dresses worn by
Memorial Day is a time for all Americans, no matter their party affiliation, to remember the sacrifices and heroism of our troops. Girls creator Lena Dunham figured the holiday was a grand excuse to uncork a potty joke via social
The couple at the heart of the thriller Dark Skies appears to have it all. The attractive duo (Josh Hamilton, Keri Russell) have two sweet kids and live in a beautifully decorated home smack dab in ’50s style suburbia. The forces–both
The morally ambiguous films of the late 1960s and early 1970s changed cinema as we know it. They also allowed modern gangster films to dig deeper into the murky souls of their antiheroes. Ultimate Gangster Collection: Contemporary, available now on
The Hangover franchise exists to shock. The tiger in the hotel room. The Mike Tyson tattoo applied to co-star Ed Helms’ face. The giraffe which meets a nasty end in the opening moments of The Hangover Part III. Franchise director
Most Americans marvel at the technology at their disposal in 2013, be it a WiFi-enabled iPad or the cell phone in their pocket or purse. Robert Redford sees such goodies as signs of technological excess that may lead to the
The so-called “separation of Church and State” is invoked so often it might as well appear on the dollar bill. John Eastman, law professor at Chapman University, reminds us the phrase isn’t in the Constitution as many people incorrectly believe.
Few actors can top the liberal bona fides of Avengers star Mark Ruffalo. The ruggedly handsome actor is vehemently anti-fracking, longs to see Guantanamo Bay closed and marched in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Today, Ruffalo set aside
You are cordially invited to be a guest at Justin Bieber’s next party. And, if you tell anybody, anywhere about it, be prepared to cough up millions. TMZ has obtained a copy of a document EVERYONE must sign before entering
President Barack Obama is a nightmare for political comedians. He’s too cool, too smart, too … good at this whole leadership thing. That was the bill of goods comedians sold us five years ago, an excuse which prevented them from
Ricky Gervais is using the tornado tragedy in Moore, OK to mock people of faith. The atheist comic, apparently rattled by the rash of #PrayForOklahoma hashtags on Twitter, tried to start his own social media meme with the hashtag #ActuallyDoSomethingForOklahoma “I feel
The hardest job in show business is officially open–again. Seth Macfarlane, the Family Guy creator who ruffled feminist feathers during his first time as Oscar host, officially begged off the gig via Twitter. That’s assuming the hosting duties were open to
Award-winning novelist Andrew Klavan wants to turn your iPad into a house of horrors. Klavan, whose novel True Crime was brought to the big screen by Clint Eastwood, has penned a new horror story delivered as an app. The Haunting Melissa app
Can anyone say Spider-Man 3 was the strongest entry in director Sam Raimi’s web-slinger franchise? How about Batman and Robin, the fourth film in the original Bat series? Sequels rarely eclipse the original, even if they still sell enough tickets
