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 )

Killer Robots and Rebel Wieners: Did Hollywood’s Working-Class Revolt Fantasies Fuel Trump’s Rise?

Aram Sinnreich / Truthdig Nov 24, 2016 Class-war fantasies are a hot new genre on the big and small screen. They might be amping up Donald Trump-mania. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Sony Hack Revealed How Hollywood Fails Us All

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Dec 26, 2014 Whether or not North Korea was really behind the devastating Sony hack, and whether or not the U.S. government orchestrated North Korea's Internet outage in retaliation, one thing is clear: The incident has exposed Hollywood's serious race problem yet again. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Sony Cancels ‘The Interview’ as U.S. Unofficially Blames North Korea

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Dec 18, 2014 Seth Rogen's comedy about the fictional assassination of real-life North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will not get its day in court, or theaters, as it were. Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

The Price of ‘The Interview’

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 16, 2014 It seems there is something to offend everyone in the upcoming Hollywood comedy "The Interview." At this point, I'm guessing, most wounded of all may be the Sony Pictures executives who greenlighted the film. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )

Madonna and Manchild: Is Adulthood in America a Relic of the Past?

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Sep 15, 2014 What does Mark Twain’s classic outsider hero Huck Finn have to do with the small army of affable manchildren that actor Seth Rogen has played in Judd Apatow films? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Schlubs, Pick-Up Artists and Nerds: Hollywood Gets Its Close-Up in the Isla Vista Debate

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig May 29, 2014 As is always the case when catastrophic outbursts can be in any way linked to entertainment and mass culture, some critics have zoomed in on Hollywood as a fomenting agent for grandiose and antisocial delusions that wind their way into volatile minds like Elliot Rodger's -- and everyone else’s, for that matter. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Seth Rogen Urges the Senate to Support Alzheimer’s Research

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 1, 2014 Before a congressional committee earlier this week, the American comic actor delivered a personal, impassioned account of his family's struggle with his mother-in-law's Alzheimer's disease. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )