Nov 20 2010

Politics in Our Movies: From ‘Mr. Smith’ to ‘Casino Jack’

All across America this lame-duck congressional season, we’re driving past malls or walking down Main Streets where theater marquees offer two major motion pictures “about” politics: “Casino Jack” starring Kevin Spacey and “Fair Game” starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But the truth is, every movie is “about” politics. Every work of art creates a [...]


Nov 13 2010

RIP Dino De Laurentiis, Master of the Movies

Arrivederci, movie impresario and producer Dino De Laurentiis. And grazie. With full disclosure to Politics Daily readers, grazie Dino from me personally for my dream career. In 1973, sitting in his New York office reading the opening four typed manuscript pages of a slim first novel by me, a nobody living in a Montana shack, [...]


Aug 6 2010

What Happened to Romance in Movies?

I want to weigh in on a topic Maureen Dowd raised in her New York Times op-ed column on Wednesday (or to be accurate, re-raised after Sam Wasson broached the topic with her in an e-mail). Dowd and Wasson, the clearly precocious 28-year-old writer whose best-selling book chronicles the making of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” despaired [...]


Jan 22 2010

Twilight Bashing Continued…

Ok now this is funny. If you haven’t seen twilight yet… don’t waist your time when a vampire glitters in the sunlight you know its a chick flick. If Count Chocula is a better vampire than you it’s time to drive a stake through your own heart.

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Jan 4 2010

Rambo Death Chart

Always liked the Rocky and Rambo series interesting pic here breaking down the kills in each of the 4 films.

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