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I told you the NY Times is not digging Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Today they have a Catholic writer, Mary Gordon, voicing her displeasure with the movie: I can look at “The Passion of the Christ” only as a woman who defines herself as Catholic, who also …

Gigli kicks major Razzie ass, and considering J-Lo is in it, that’s a lot of ass to kick: Golden Raspberry Awards voters picked “Gigli” as 2003’s worst picture, Affleck as worst actor, Lopez as worst actress and the two as worst screen couple. “Gigli” filmmaker Martin Brest also took the …

The Academy Awards are tomorrow night – are you “grippped by award fever” as this BBC story suggests? I didn’t think so. However, after taking many years off in my young adulthood, I do find myself interested in the results, to a certain extent, but moreso of the awards shows …

What if P2P was 3-D? Dave Chappelle asks – Ron Jeremy, among others, answers.

I freely admit that’s an ugly, sensationalistic title, but what an interesting coincidence that two reports on child molestation by Catholic priests were released today, just two days after Mel Gibson’s deeply “Catholic” bloodbath of a film about the last 12 hours of Christ’s life was set loose upon the …

The NY Times’ view of Mel Gibson’s new film The Passion is clearly not a positive one. Not even taking into account their reviewer’s mostly negative reation, the paper subjects Gibson to something of a “hammer and anvil” squeeze between the religious community and Hollywood. Their “interfaith panel” reacts: An …

Mel Gibson’s highly controversial film on the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus opens today, Ash Wednesday. Reaction to the film is about as varied and passionate as such things get – we have reviews, news and thoughts collected here: Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: A …

Wow, you don’t often see reviews this passionately disparate and disparately passionate, and the line – I guess predictably – seems to be drawn between believers and nonbelievers: “One of the cruelest movies in the history of cinema,” says the New Yorker’s David Denby in a negative review that also …

Ooh, the staff isn’t going to like this: A report commissioned by Britain’s opposition Conservative Party calls for the British Broadcasting Corp. to be broken up and gradually weaned away from dependence on license fees paid by television viewers. The BBC’s charter expires at the end of 2006, and the …

I am not a fan of the reject episodes of American Idol, being that they trade on cruelty, delusion, excrementitious talent, confrontation, and more cruelty. I think the reaction William Hung has received is due to his enthusiastic guilelessness in the face of rudely dismissive criticism from the AI judges, …