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HBO isn’t often accused of being a great source of patriotic material, but their 2008 mini-series John Adams should required viewing. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a great one to rent. It deals with the first fifty years of

DC Comics has announced a new look and origin for Wonder Woman. They’re blaming it on the gods. Once again DC shows it doesn’t know what to do with one of its most iconic characters. The problem with Wonder Woman

Not since Walt Disney created a film studio based mostly on animation has a film company had such a string of successful family films. In fact, Pixar has had more successes in its run than Disney did in its early

The Los Angeles Times has a sordid history of race baiting in its effort to pump up its progressive bonafides, despite a historic lack of diversity in their own staff. Their latest diatribe is a recent attack on Hollywood for

When I heard they were making a film of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane, I wasn’t sure I’d be happy about it. Howard was the creator of Conan the Barbarian; he is one of the handful of writers like JRR

Censorship must die!

The Treme (pronounced treh-MAY) is one of New Orleans oldest and traditionally black neighborhoods. It is also the home of some of its musical legends. The area was one of those hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. HBO’s new series explores

Hollywood’s favorite examples of how “evil” conservatives are, and how “wrong” the 1950s were, is the Blacklist and the McCarthy hearings, even though they were unrelated. It’s a popular theme in many films and TV shows that the Red Scare

When the Times Square bomb was discovered, the usual suspects in the press once again showed us how objective they really are. Geraldo Rivera, keen to outdo Keith Olbermann in the irrelevance department, blamed it all on white people, racists

Uh oh.

From a short story by crime legend Elmore Leonard comes Justified, a new FX drama written and produced by showrunner Graham Yost, best known as the writer of the 1994 action movie Speed. Starring Deadwood alum Timothy Olyphant, Justified takes

There’s an old saying that when you scratch a person you see what lies beneath their skin. People are defined under pressure. The press, the Administration and its allies are under pressure and what we’re seeing under their skin is

In the late 1960s, early 70s, Hollywood was in a lot worse shape than it is now. The studio system was on its last legs. Major corporations were buying up the studios and the execs didn’t know how to run

This is our sixth month of Obama Nation strips. Huzzah!

Since when can you be sued for using a font? The Vandals, an L.A. based punk band, learned the answer to this question when they parodied Variety’s iconic logo for their 2004 album “Hollywood Potato Chip.” The word Variety, or