Wall-E’s Song
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Economics, Environment, MediaWatch, Movies, Politics, The Arts | No Comments »
(Warning: Contains a spoiler.) Once upon a time, in the not-too-distant future, the material world overwhelmed the physical world. In other words, there was so much garbage on earth that it ... Read more..Questions of Guilt
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Movies, Politics, The Arts | No Comments »
It was a major film, created by a major director. And yet the producers found it so offensive that they refused to release it. An official at BBC, one of ... Read more..Iraq — Band of Brothers
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Consensus: Stop-Loss is sincere and complex, and features strong performances, but it also veers into overwrought dramatic territory and tries to cover too much ground. (Rotten Tomatoes) The logic behind the ... Read more..Iraq — No End in Sight
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Frank Gibney was an old Japan hand. During World War II, someone in the U.S. Navy had the singular idea that a person who had studied one foreign language could easily ... Read more..Iraq — Sensory Deprivation
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Many discussions of "Exposure," the Abu Ghraib article in the March 24 New Yorker, comment that authors Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris assert, The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was ... Read more..