Tag Archives: Video

Directed by Greg Spotts Spotts’ documentary is about the toll that working Americans and the economy have suffered as a result of the NAFTA treaty and low-wage foreign competition. It is being released along with a companion book entitled CAFTA and Free Trade: What Every American Should Know just at …

First-time Oscar host Chris Rock, who pissed off the Academy grannies with his disparaging comments about the Awards show, went on with Jay Leno last night to mend some fences, sort of. “I did not say that [about no straight black men watching the Oscars]. I said only gay people …

The Writers Guild of America announced the winners of the 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen, television, and radio in ceremonies at The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and the Pierre Hotel in New York on Saturday, February 19, 2005. Subversive screenplay inverter/deconstructionist …

I’ve been getting feverish press releases from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leading up to the Oscars, mostly announcing that this or that celebrity has been added to the burgeoning roster of presenters, or that Chris Rock is NOT the anti-Christ or other such necessary but marginal …

The Writers Guild of America has named Super Size Me, written by Morgan Spurlock, as the winner of the Guild’s first-ever Documentary Screenplay Award for outstanding achievement in documentary writing for the screen during 2004. The newly-created award was presented by producer Brian Grazer at a SRO reception for over …

I love this cross-pollination of media, eras, and sensibilities. SynthCleveland will present the 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer classic silent film “The Passion Of Joan Of Arc,” featuring a new live soundtrack on Wednesday, March 9 at 8pm, at Rain Nightclub, 4142 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland. This is the third in …

Watching the generally quite entertaining and sometimes even moving (Melissa, Kanye, Alicia, Southern rock) Grammy show last night, my wife and I had remarkably similar thoughts when Usher came on and busted out the flowing, acrobatic dance moves that at times left me questioning the presence of bones inside his …

We snagged a great deal on the DVD of Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and tossed it up on the screen last night. On the surface, it’s remarkable that such a modest film would garner four Academy Award nominations — best actor for Bill Murray, directing for Coppola, best picture, …

Sure, Beyonce is hot and cool and all of that, but so are lots of people and I’m not sure why the Academy has chosen her to dominate the best original song performances of the evening. Beyonce will perform “Look to Your Path” from Les Choristes accompanied by the American …

The Three Stooges' first feature film only contains a hint of the grandeur to come. . .