The Best Movies That Won’t Win Best Picture on Oscar Night

Margaret Barra / Truthdig Mar 3, 2018 These six films, as good as any of the top nominees, represent the politics and prejudices of Academy voters. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Female Empowerment, ‘3 Billboards,’ Oprah Shine at Golden Globes

JAKE COYLE / The Associated Press Jan 7, 2018 A speech by Winfrey, honored for lifetime achievement, encapsulates the “Me Too” mood of the movie and television awards ceremony. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Bad, The Good, and The Difference

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Dec 7, 2017 For all its amateurishness, “The Room” is authentic, a heartfelt, if inarticulate, expression of a naive artist. “The Disaster Artist” is an artificial substitute. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sony Hackers Warn of 9/11-Style Attack on Theaters That Show ‘The Interview’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Dec 17, 2014 Whoever is actually behind the devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment knows how to play to the public's imagination on the same super-sized scale as their targets in the film industry do for a living. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Is North Korea Behind Hack Attack on Sony?

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Dec 10, 2014 As top brass at Sony Pictures Entertainment scramble to contain the considerable fallout from last month's cyberattack by a hacking collective calling itself Guardians of Peace, investigators still haven't pinpointed the geographical source of the online onslaught. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Violent Video Game Ban Blown to Smithereens

Staff / Truthdig Jun 28, 2011 The Supreme Court overturned California's ban on violent video games; social networking sites may be effectively enhancing our social lives; and a case of public urination in Oregon forces a city to flush its reservoir. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Colbert Report’: On James Franco and Codpieces

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2011 Academy Award™-nominated actor and sometime homicidal soap opera villain James Franco has been called a Renaissance man by certain members of the press. This rankles Stephen Colbert, who uses his show as a platform to besmirch Franco's name, with help from Franco himself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Howl’ Stars Franco, Hamm Slam Prop. 8

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2010 When you're in a movie about a countercultural figure as big as Allen Ginsberg, it's going to be hard to avoid the political questions, and "Howl" stars Jon Hamm and James Franco, who plays the Beat-era poet in the film, were ready to hold forth at the Sundance Film Festival about one prominent political topic of our time: California's Proposition 8. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )