"I was told I needed to act more like the Establishment."read more
An Interview with Cenk Uygur
Oliver Stone, John Travolta Denounce War
“We don’t seem to learn from our mistakes,” said Stone, who called the war on drugs ‘a 42-year-old farce, a disaster of immense proportions.’ ”read more
Sandra Fluke: Women Won the Election
“Women have the power to put people in office and we have the power to take them back out.”read more
Ken Burns Interview
America’s preeminent television documentarian, Ken Burns, returned to the little -- and big -- screen in November with a proverbial bang.read more
An Interview with Oliver Stone
“This project has sapped me. It took almost five years. But I’m very proud of it. It’s an accumulation of the themes of my films.”read more
Slavery and Emancipation in the Movies
Filmmakers have gradually caught up to the movement to end slavery of every form. Here is a tour of the horizon of motion picture human bondage.read more
Progressives Score with Academy Award Nominations
Anti-slavery movies, along with films celebrating revolution, the Enlightenment, and the fight against AIDS have all been nominated.read more
A Hollywood Protest Against "Zero Dark Thirty"
David Clennon and others denounced the film’s “despicable message.”read more
How the Oscars, and Michelle Obama, Saluted the CIA
With liberal propagandists like this, who needs reactionaries?read more
The Hollywood Left Says Goodbye to Hugo Chavez
Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Michael Moore pay their respects.read more
Jane Fonda Cements the Peace Sign
She places her hand next to her father’s at a ceremony on Saturday in Hollywood.read more
Cenk Uygur Celebrates a Billion Views
“FOX is propaganda for the Republicans. MSNBC is propaganda for the Democrats. CNN is propaganda for both.”read more
Revenge Fantasy in “Assault on Wall Street”
Like “Django Unchained,” this film lets the victims take on their victimizers.read more
Heckler-In-Chief: CodePink’s Medea Benjamin
“It’s our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name.”read more
LA Film Festival Full of Political Work
There are some truly tasty treats here.read more
Costa-Gavras
"Cinema has changed the world," says the legendary political filmmaker.read more
“GMO OMG”—Watch What You Eat!
A new documentary opens today.read more
Psychoanalyst Interprets Obama on Syria
How he brought opposites together.read more
Go See “The Trials of Muhammad Ali”
And find out what his greatest fight was.read more
Go See the Movie about MOVE: “Let the Fire Burn”
Who ordered the cops in Philly to drop a bomb on a black nationalist group? And who made the decision not to put out the blaze?read more