View image Forget it, Jim. It's Whatpassesfor- logicandreasonintheworld-town. "Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" -- Robert Zimmerman, 1965 I do not believe that the greatest evil is done by people who…
View image Just a few of my very favorite stars from "Boogie Nights." Yes, I know "favoritest" isn't a word, but I'm (mis-)using it in the spirit (though not the letter) of the German language, in which you can construct…
Q. I got a chuckle out of the Movie Glossary entry titled "The Walk." This shot, of the characters lined up and walking meaningfully toward the camera, became so hackneyed it was used three times in each and every episode…
View image Mariane and Daniel Pearl (Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman) in "A Mighty Heart." The term "moral relativism" (or "moral equivalence") has always fascinated me because of its slipperiness -- its moral relativism, if you will. The way the…
Following is the transcript of Chris Curveball’s televised interview last night with Ann Coulter, held before a group of high school students.
Edward Yang in 2001. (AP photo) Director Edward Yang, perhaps most familiar to US audiences for his 2000 epic "Yi Yi" (which won him Best Director honors at the Cannes Film Festival), died Friday at age 59, another victim of…
Joel Siegel, 1943 - 2007. Although I didn't approve of the way "Good Morning America" movie reviewer Joel Siegel reportedly walked out of a screening of Kevin Smith's "Clerks II" last summer (announcing: "Time to go! First movie I've walked…
Joel Siegel wrote the following for an American Cancer Society newsletter:
Joel Siegel's advice for cancer patients
Q: I disagree with your contention that, after having seen all 100 movies on the American Film Institute's "greatest" list, one would no longer have the desire to see a Dead Teenager Movie. Such a statement does a disservice to…
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