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Is This the Dawning of the Cinematic Age of Obama?
Not if Liam Neeson and Clint Eastwood have anything to say about it.
There’s Nothing Sly About Bill O’Reilly
O'Reilly treated President Barack Obama with respect and regularly offers both sides of key partisan debates. Can MSNBC say the same?
HBO Presents: Conservatives as Ignorant Racists Who Cling to God and Guns
What else were you expecting in a documentary from Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
Pass the Tissues: The Slobbering Love Affair Between Obama and the Press
Bernard Goldberg's new book reports on media love-in that shows little sign of ending soon. (Listen to Ed Driscoll's interview with Bernard Goldberg here.)
How Does a Pastor Survive a Sex Scandal?
An HBO documentary on Ted Haggard, shot by the daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, takes a sympathetic view of his life in disgrace.
Has Hollywood Been Unfair to Muslims?
A new movie takes aim at an alleged epidemic of on-screen Arab bad guys and woes of Arab-American actors.
House of Saddam: Where are the Mass Graves and Torture Chambers?
HBO's new miniseries doesn't provide a full account of Hussein's cruelty.
The Real Hugo Chavez
PBS's The Hugo Chavez Show can't hide the fact that Venezuela's leader is a fraud.
Celebrities Swoon for Obama
The stars roll out the red carpet for Obama. Does anyone care? (Also, Phyllis Chesler on Jane Fonda and Erica Jong's pre-election hysteria here)
Comedy Central’s Bush-Bashing DVD Is Short on Laughs
John Stewart is a hundred times funnier than the material gathered here.
Is Crash Train Wreck TV?
Or is the pay cable channel Starz's first dramatic series as good as The Sopranos?
Big Shock: Critics Hate An American Carol
If they had more than two thumbs to direct downward, they would have used them to trash the conservative comedy.
Film Critics Shut Their Eyes to Terrorism
As their response to Traitor demonstrates, they want your eyes to be shut as well.
Charging Bush With Stealing the 2004 Election
Republicans won't flock to see Stealing America: Vote by Vote — but the story it uncovers is no partisan witch hunt.
Helen Thomas’ Parade of Presidents
The White House press corps fixture was never famous for nuance — or objectivity.
Truth Gets Screwed in Larry Flynt Documentary
Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone ignores or mocks the porn tycoon's critics.
Mad Men Wins Raves, Not Ratings
The hit series has all the earmarks of appointment television, but viewers keep forgetting to put it on their calendar.
Trumbo: Whitewashing the Life of a Blacklisted Writer
A new documentary on screenwriter Dalton Trumbo aims to honor its subject but succumbs to self-righteousness and obfuscation.
Generation Kill: Not the Greatest Generation
The new HBO miniseries on Iraq is well-executed, but its anti-war bias is clear.
Obama TV Bio Glorifies, Doesn’t Scrutinize
Biography: Barack Obama is generous in its treatment of the title subject and predictably lacks critical material.
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