Politics and Cinema

I've been wondering how the election would impact the Oscars. Many of us were waiting to see how it turned...

I predicted Trump would win in 2016 and won $100. In 2020, I can't remember what I predicted but I...

This will be the dirtiest election in my lifetime. That much I know for sure. Watching the Democrat machine whir...

On Tuesday Joe Biden will go up against  Donald Trump to battle for the nation's soul. That is the pitch...

The Academy Award-winning director talks to Joey Moser about his incendiary documentary, Citizen K. Director Alex Gibney's latest documentary made...

The horror genre is serving as a catharsis for the real-life horror we face daily waking up to the Trump...

If you think about it, Donald Glover has been on the come for a good long while. His first breakthrough...

Major U.S. Cities and States to Observe 50th Anniversary of Trailblazing Marshall’s Swearing in as the First African American Supreme...

As the authoritarian Trump regime rears up in spiteful revenge against America's creative artists by slashing federal funding for the...

by Sasha Stone and Ryan Adams Meryl Streep has slipped in and out of so many characters, so thoroughly, so...

A reader sent me this note: "I was wondering (really hoping) that we would get an essay on how you...

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago. Her father was mean, her mother was strong, and Hillary learned at a young...

Michael Moore will be showing a documentary tonight in New York that has been kept under wraps this whole year....

If you really want to know why more women directors don't get work, take a look at this year's presidential...

One thing that is astonishing about this year's presidential race is what it tells us about ourselves, and specifically, what...

Earlier today, Tim Robbins introduced Bernie Sanders at an event in Wisconsin, probably because the last two Bernie rallies have...

After the smoke cleared from the 88th Academy Awards, many felt that though the entire broadcast was dedicated to undoing...

It's a pathetic situation in America when the queasy combination of celebrities and politics can literally result in "celebrity politicians"...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell delivers the Last Word with a lesson about how and why filmmakers dramatize real life events. "Movies...

"Even though you only bought a trinket, you paid for something bigger." - In three powerful minutes, Kathryn Bigelow maps...