Jesus at the Box Office

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2006 AlterNet's Jonathan Jones probes Hollywood's post-"Passion" fetish for Christian-oriented films and challenges the assumption that religious movies will rake in the cash by pandering to an attention-starved audience. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Altman Dead at 81

Staff / Truthdig Nov 22, 2006 The auteur filmmaker behind "MASH" died of complications from cancer. An unconventional artist, Altman was nominated for five best-directing Academy Awards over the years, and won an honorary statue this year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oliver Stone on Hollywood and the ?Machinery of War?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2006 Oliver Stone, speaking at the Venice Film Festival, criticized Hollywood?s romance of war. ? 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Black Hawk Down' -- these movies worshipped the machinery of war and I think America went back to the concept of war too easily.? 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 )

Perversion for Profit

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2006 Check out this ultra-campy educational film from the 1960s about the rise of pornographic culture. Money quote: "We know that once a person is perverted, it is practically impossible for that person to adjust to normal attitudes in regards to sex." (h/t: BoingBoing) 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 )

Andy Borowitz — Kim Jong-Il: I Want to Be Villain in New Bond Film

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Jul 8, 2006 "The question 'What does Kim Jong-Il really want?' was definitively answered today when the mercurial North Korean dictator offered to abandon his nuclear weapons program in exchange for the role of the villain in the new James Bond film." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Egyptian Brokeback Mountain’ Marks Liberalization of Muslim Culture

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 The fact that Egyptian authorities didn't censor a box office-topping film that deals frankly with homosexuality--along with police torture and government corruption--is probably a sign that Egypt's government is adopting a more tolerant, progressive attitude. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Bush just signed the "Janet Jackson FCC bill," which raises by tenfold the fines for broadcasing so-called indecent material. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Drudge Falsely Smears Gore

Staff / Truthdig May 23, 2006 We usually don't like to point to mud fights, but on something as deadly serious as global warming, we thought it proper to call out conservative Internet kingpin Matt Drudge, who tried to peddle the apparently false story that Gore & Co. were hypocritically environmentally unfriendly at the Cannes Film Festival. 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

Gore Revs Up Global Warming Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Apr 19, 2006 The former vice president is going high profile with his climate-change film "An Inconvenient Truth." Speculation is rife that he is using the issue as a stalking horse for the White House in 2008. Check out an early review of the movie. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Border Justice: ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’

Sheerly Avni / Truthdig Feb 5, 2006 Tommy Lee Jones revives the western with his feature film debut about justice, redemption and relations with our neighbor to the south. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )