Phillip Morris is a politically-incorrect movie that happens to be a gay romantic comedy. It's also a wild story of an outlandishly nervy con man whose scams ultimately are all perpetrated in the name of love.
Here are just a few members of the "Life After 50 Club." Some have been in the club for several years (like me), and others are newbies. Take a look. I think you'll feel pretty good about the company you'll keep once you join.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I won the weekend derby, but Disney's Tangled had a smashing debut that set a record for a three-day opening weekend for a standard Disney (i.e., not Pixar) cartoon.
Harry Potter and his friends may have dropped out of school to save the world, but you don't have to jump to that conclusion -- yet. Their world is magic, ours is not.
The play into film that so captured hearts with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman was for me, at least, completely unmoving, due to the affectedly mannered Ms. Redgrave.
With the new Black Eyed Peas' album, The Beginning, set to hit stores worldwide, the enigmatic songwriter and I caught up to talk a little music, live performing, and politics.
Passing off stand-up comedy as a Broadway show, intentionally or not, does nothing but confuse the terminology of theatrical standards, whatever those might be.
This week, we feature music by Iggy Pop, Sean Hayes, The Leftovers, Joanna Newsom, Donna Summer, Oppenheimer and more.
Five years after Who Killed the Electric Car, we have a new documentary and a dramatic new era both for electric cars and movie distribution. How the world's changed.
If you go over to Twitter, and search the hashtags #Macys and #MacysParade, you'll find the mix of snark and sincere enjoyment you'd expect from this particular cross-section of post-modern America.
For over three decades, John Nelson has specialized in making impossible images seem real.
I hope that Inside Job is shown near and on campuses across the country. The signs of hope really lie with future generations questioning those who came before them.
2010 has been exciting and extremely busy for Nash, who released her sophomore album My Best Friend is Youand toured to support it for the better part of the year.
This Thanksgiving I want to send all my loving to two people -- no, not my kids, or even my wife, though they're pretty fab too -- but rather two men who I think we should all be thankful to still have in our lives.
What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.
Sarah Palin is clearly a student of film history. So when she says Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of her "favorite movies," she must know it was written by a communist, right?
Whether taking on Chaucer, challenging Ireland's most doggedly held beliefs of the Middle Ages, or having a child out of wedlock with a woman more than half his age, Terry Jones is not afraid to take on the establishment.
He's not the best rapper or even the most dynamic, but Kanye West is a pop music innovator. I don't know about you, but I want to hear "Good Life" at my son's Bar Mitzvah.
Is anyone seriously considering the indelible, eternal and global messages Tyler Perry's films are sending about black men?
Michael Kaiser, 2010.11.29
