Had director Michael Moore ambled into The Stage Theatre Thursday for the world premiere of Just Like Us, he might have muttered, “Man, that was a one-sided production.” So goes Just Like Us, a relentlessly pro-amnesty polemic that buries its
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.
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
As fast food walkouts are staged around the country, a possible solution exists that wouldn’t inconvenience franchise owners and would highlight the hypocrisy of the left. I’m not sure if it’s a result of a simple union recruitment drive or the
Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore no longer serves as a governor on the Academy’s documentary board. Conservative producer Gerald Molen praised Moore’s exit, and rightly so. Few artists are as unabashedly biased in their thinking as Moore, which instantly taints the Oscars
Michael Moore knows the power of mockery when it comes to today’s political climate. The far-left filmmaker did all he could to ridicule President George W. Bush, most notably in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Now, Moore is taking President Barack
It became crystal clear today that the next Oscars ceremony won’t feature a refrain from We Saw Your Boobs. Ellen DeGeneres, the popular daytime talker, will be hosting the 2014 Academy Awards telecast. The gig marks a return assignment for
Michael Moore, the far-left filmmaker behind Capitalism: A Love Story, is getting divorced. Now, his high-powered legal team will have to figure out how to split the spoils of his capitalistic pursuits. Moore filed for divorce from Glynn, his wife
The band Pink Floyd made famous the lyric, “We Don’t Need No Education” but as it turns out, perhaps they do. As do some conservatives who are being sucked into Hollywood and the recording industry’s long con on royalty payment
Let’s pause and give The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill his due. The liberal war correspondent isn’t just firing off accusations from the comfort of his couch. He travels to the hottest spots in the world to file war dispatches, and with
Check out this headline that ran on the front page of The Nation’s website: “Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6.” Let’s not let the suspense kill you about who the self-described “flagship of the left” chooses between the WikiLeaks leaker and the
Congressman Peter King (R., N.Y.) “Too many Republicans and conservatives have become Michael Moores, and I think it’s really dangerous to our country.”
Breitbart News previously reported how stars like Alec Baldwin, Judd Apatow and Steve Martin are reacting to the blossoming NSA spying imbroglio. Now, more celebrities are airing their displeasure over the government’s domestic eavesdropping plan–or simply using the headlines to
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
During a segment on guns on the May 18 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher told Michael Moore, “As long as we live in the gun country, I ain’t giving up my guns.” Maher said there have
Bill Maher shocked Hollywood filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday night with this declaration that he owned two guns and kept them in his house. Moore told Maher that he should go to the gun range to practice often but said
It has become a popular mantra of progressives to claim that conservatives are unable to contribute in any meaningful way to art or entertainment in America. Having heard this diatribe for most of the last decade in response to my
Filmmaker Michael Moore has now sounded off on the ongoing situation surrounding suspected Boston Marathon bombers and Muslim terrorists Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan. Naturally, he blames America: Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of
Comedian Jay Mohr joined Michael Moore as one of only a few celebrities to exploit the April 15 bombing in Boston to further a political cause. Mohr, who hosts both a podcast and a sports radio show, used yesterday’s terrorist
When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot and seriously wounded in January 2011 celebrities rushed to blame conservatives for the attack. Several, including The Hunger Games co-star Elizabeth Banks, Jane Fonda and Patton Oswalt linked former Gov. Sarah Palin’s political
Michael Moore, joining in the leftist rush to judgment, tweeted two phrases this afternoon, presumably meant to cast blame on the oft-invoked “right-wing extremists” speculated about by CNN today: Moore is the same man who labeled Iraqi terrorists “freedom fighters.”
David Zucker learned the hard way comedy audiences don’t want a 90-minute lecture. They just want to laugh. The comedy legend’s An American Carol proved a rare commercial misstep for Zucker, best known for Airplane!, The Naked Gun trilogy and
In response to Beyoncé and Jay-Z Do Cuba: Anyone who’s read my articles know I’m a huge fan of both Beyonce and Jay-Z. I love Beyonce as an artist and I love Jay-Z as a philosopher. Does their trip to Cuba change
Documentary Filmmaker Michael Moore on MSNBC’s Ed show… “Did you realize that over 90% of the guns in this country are owned by white people in the suburbs and in rural areas? Ninety-percent of our guns are not owned by
Seriously, who doesn’t know The Onion is satire? When blinded by your ideology, I guess anything is possible. From NewsBusters: Wealthy filmmaker Michael Moore and Rainn Wilson, an actor best known for his role in the American version of “The
Today’s top stories in social media and technology include a dongle joke that prompted 2 firings and an ill-informed DDoS attack, Yoko Ono tweets anti-gun propaganda, law blogger Popehat’s Reddit debut, a comment on the BlazingCatFur blog brings a police
Plenty of documentary filmmakers would love to grill Vice President Dick Cheney on his political career. R.J. Cutler, best known for producing The War Room and directing The September Issue, got the chance after convincing the reticent politician to speak
Readers who know of my personal history will understand my accounting for what I experienced during my month-long 2006 stay in Venezuela. Realizing that many may not have heard any of my story previously, an explanation of the circumstances surrounding
Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore led a triumvirate of celebrity Hugo Chavez apologists in mourning the socialist leader’s passing yesterday. “You won’t hear much nice about him in the US media in the next few days. So, I thought I’d say
The minds behind the new HBO show VICE probably wished the Worm had turned the other way. Former basketball great Dennis Rodman joined a delegation of athletes–including the Harlem Globetrotters–as part of a cultural outreach effort with North Korea. The
On March 1st, 2012, I woke up to a text message from a friend I had lost touch with over the previous year. Naturally, I was intrigued. It had to be something important. And it was not just a single text
Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore apparently couldn’t understand why Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would question the need for affirmative action-style laws regarding voting rights in 2013. So, rather than consider Scalia’s arguments or ask a conservative about Scalia’s possible thinking,
Because the he said/she said is so much fun between the left-wing BuzzFeed and the left-wing Michael Moore, an important fact has been overlooked: Initially, BuzzFeed apparently invented anonymous sources in its rush to protect Obama’s government from the filmmaker. In her original
In response to Huffpo: Ben Smith, BuzzFeed ‘Government-Subservient’ Stenographers: BuzzFeed definitely made some mistakes but Glenn Greenwald’s outrage seems a bit over the top (as usual). Even Huff Post is backing off the outrage a bit: UPDATE: BuzzFeed wrote a
The Huffington Post and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald got together to absolutely blister Ben Smith (watch the video here) and BuzzFeed for doing what Smith has done ever since Obama became president: become the government’s Chief Palace Guard. The only real
Michael Moore is outraged that a news outlet would call his accuracy into question. The far-left filmmaker rallied to the cause of a Palestinian filmmaker last week after the man claimed he was delayed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Antics on or about social media. Shameful fakes continue. Lawmakers urge Facebook to remove fraudulent Sandy Hook tributes Some tweets are best left not tweeted. Not Even the Onion Thought Its Quvenzhane Wallis Tweet Was Funny One blogger has an
Filmmaker Michael Moore tugged on his Superman cape today to rush to the rescue of a filmmaker fearing deportation. The director in question, Emad Burnat, flew into Los Angeles to prepare for Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony. He’s nominated for his
The GOP video team posted this clip of Sen. Harkin reassuring the nation that, despite our $16 trillion in debt, growing entitlements and massive deficits, we are not broke: This argument sounded so familiar, but it took me a moment