It is not very often that I have felt a full-body shudder of horror from watching something on screen. But early in the documentary Collective, about the investigation and cover up following the death…
Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev returns to the U.S. of A. fourteen years after being sent to the gulag for shaming his country. His mission? As an official gift from his coun…
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice the sub-genre of romantic comedies where a completely neurotic, dorky, egotistical New York white male becomes romantic catnip to an impossibly gorgeous woman. …
In 2006, Vice President Al Gore used his fame to explode environmentalism into the mainstream. Using a PowerPoint slide presentation as the core of his message, he managed to explain global warning in…
Darkest Hour covers Churchill's first month as British Prime Minister, a role he is reluctantly thrust into after Parliament's dissatisfaction with Neville Chamberlain's inaction in response to the ri…
The opening credits of Confirmation offer a quick history lesson. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush was struggling to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacated by the first …
Sandra Bullock plays "Calamity" Jane Bodine, a political consultant apparently so ruthless that she can make even the most shady, incompetent politician into a winner. But Jane has been "retired" for …
I went into Where to Invade Next thinking it was Michael Moore's take on U.S. military spending and warmongering. Count me surprised (and a little relived) that the film outlines, instead, various soc…
Wikipedia helpfully explains the odd title of this 3-hour adaptation of J.K. Rowling's first "adult" novel:
In politics, a casual vacancy is a situation in which a seat in a deliberative assembly is v…
Wag the Dog is one of those films that will probably have cyclical relevance through the years, depending on who is in the Oval Office. There will be years that the premise will seem outlandish, and o…
However, civic-minded issues don't always make for compelling drama. Case in point: In Sunshine State, the thread that brings all the characters together in a small Florida tourist beach town is the f…
You'd think that with the dirty campaigning shown in Street Fight that it was a national election, for President or Senate. But no, this is Newark, New Jersey, circa 2002. Incumbent mayor Sharpe James…
