Film

What if Jon Stewart Were President?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2006 That's the premise of "Man of the Year," a movie starring Robin Williams as a Jon Stewart-type who successfully runs for the Oval Office. The trailer makes it look kind of cheesy and predictable, but, as a cultural moment, it's interesting: the hunger for a truth-teller of fake news to lead the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Documentary Exposes Movie Ratings Hypocrisies

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2006 Have you ever wondered why the people who rate American movies (i.e. "PG-13" vs. "R") consider nudity and foul language so much more dangerous to children than graphic depictions of violence? So did the guy who made this new movie. Read about him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Ali G’s Borat Tackles the ‘War of Terror’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 13, 2006 The movie trailer is out for Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Watch an American rodeo crowd roar in approval (and then disgust) as Cohen's Borat mocks America's "war of terror" and arrogance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Brangelina’s Next Project: Mariane Pearl Movie

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2006 Angelina Jolie will star as the wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in an adaptation of her book "A Mighty Heart." Jolie's husband Brad Pitt will produce the film, and Michael Winterbottom (whose "The Road to Guantanamo" is in theaters now) will direct. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Michael Moore: Going Beyond ‘HMO’s Suck’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 The guerrilla documentary filmmaker's next movie, "Sicko," will be "a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth." But it's not just "a movie that tells you that HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies suck. Everybody knows that. I'd like to show you some things you don't know." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Convenient Omissions on the Road to Guantanamo

Sheerly Avni / Truthdig Jun 24, 2006 Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross have made a necessary and important critique of grave injustices at Guantanamo Bay. But are their storytelling techniques entirely on the level? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Best Kiss: Brokeback Mountain

Staff / Truthdig Jun 4, 2006 Jake Gyllenhaal's kiss with Heath Ledger beat out real-life couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kiss for the " Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Fast Food Nation’ Trailer Hits the Net

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2006 Greg Kinnear stars in the movie, based on Eric Schlosser's mega-selling anti-fast-food book. Looks worthwhile. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Da Vinci’ Secret Is Out: Most Critics Hate It

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2006 After all that hand-wringing by Christian leaders about the deleterious influence that the movie would have on the faithful, it turns out that the film is stillborn. Dig deeper

George Clooney Urges Action on Darfur Genocide

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2006 The Academy Award-winning actor said at a press conference with Sens. Barack Obama and Sam Brownback, "What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oscars Postmortem

Sheerly Avni / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 And the award for "Best Proof That Hollywood Is Out of Touch": No one made a single reference to the troops fighting and dying in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gore Vidal on The Academy Awards, Sexuality and Politics

Sheerly Avni / Truthdig Mar 4, 2006 In a Truthdig interview with Sheerly Avni, Gore Vidal weighs in on this year's Academy Awards competition, Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," and Truman Capote's Proust complex. Dig deeper