Movies

Nausea Alert: Barack and Michelle Obama's Love Story Coming to Theaters

mike.ciandella — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:11:55 +0000

President’s first date recaptured.

Katie Yoder

It’s all about true love – not only for the Obamas, but also for the media.

“The White House legend that is Barack and Michelle Obama’s romance is heading to the screen,” reported Deadline’s Jen Yamato on Dec. 5. The drama, “Southside With You,” will detail the Obama couple’s “epic first date” the summer of 1989 – consisting of the Art Institute, a long walk, and Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing.”

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

Media Prey Upon Strange New Species: Virgins

dan.gainor — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:24:40 +0000

Top 10 ways movies, TV treat virginity as feature of a bizarre breed.

Katie Yoder

SPECIES: The Virgin (Sexus Nontilnuptials)

PREDATOR: The Media (Sexus Perpetual Obsessicus)

METHOD OF ATTACK: Exploitation and Extinction

Peer through a leafy curtain deep in the Amazon and you might just catch a glimpse of an elusive specimen: “the virgin.”

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

Here Comes the 'Abortion Comedy'

tim.graham — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:48:44 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Tim Graham

The feminist film critics can exhale now. Someone has finally concocted their dream movie: an “abortion comedy.” Because apparently nothing sounds funnier than an unplanned one-night stand and a courageous destruction of God's most beautiful and most innocent creation.

God Movies Make Money

tim.graham — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:11:36 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Tim Graham

The accountants in Hollywood don’t have to believe in Heaven to notice the box-office numbers on recent movies with religious themes. “Heaven Is For Real” opened in the days before Easter and grossed more than $22 million, coming in second for the weekend, just $3 million behind the latest “Captain America” blockbuster (in its third week). The movie‘s per-screen average — $8,895 — was far above the rest of the top five.

You're Right to Choose This Movie

tim.graham — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:48:35 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

What happens when a teenager who came into the world as an unplanned teenage pregnancy ends up with an unplanned pregnancy of her own? Will she bend to all the “helpful” insistence that she needs to exercise her “right to choose” before she is, as one callous presidential contender put it, “punished with a baby”?

Book: Christians Shown As ‘Hateful Stereotypes in Today’s Movies’

mike.ciandella — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:49:32 +0000

Author examines Christian downfall in films.

Katie Yoder

This isn’t a new book, but now, finally released in soft cover, it’s every bit as important to Christians and pop-culture watchers it was in 2009. Because, as you might guess, the cultural atmosphere that produced Peter E.

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

Upside-Down Movie Ratings Games

tim.graham — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:48:04 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

The modern movie ratings system was put in place by the Motion Picture Association of America in 1968 for parents to protect children under 18 from ultraviolent or sexually explicit material. Since 1968, avant-garde leftists have been trying to knock this voluntary system down.

Occupy Wall Street Documentary Promotes ‘99%’ Just in Time for OWS Anniversary

julia.seymour — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:17:51 +0000

Newly released Sundance film celebrates the ‘inspiring’ legacy of the anti-capitalist movement.

Kristine Marsh

Protesters began their occupation of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, 2011, nearly two year ago. Participant Media and two filmmakers have commemorated the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement with a new documentary film that was released Sept. 6.

Viewing Cultural Collapse at Cannes

tim.graham — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:14:50 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Stop the presses! Decadence dominated the publicity oozing out of the Cannes Film Festival in France. The festival’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or (or Golden Palm) went to “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which drew most of its buzz from an explicit ten-minute lesbian sex scene.

New Sundance Film ‘The East’ Focuses on Anarchist, Eco-Terrorist Group

julia.seymour — Wed, 29 May 2013 19:22:26 +0000

Director dismisses criticism saying: ‘sweet’ of people ‘to think that people holding corporations accountable is evil.’

Liz Thatcher

“We are The East ... We want all those who are guilty to experience the terror of their crimes,” begins the trailer for a new Sundance Film Festival movie, set for limited release on May 31. One of the stars has said she thinks “there is an element of wish fulfillment” in the film, which depicts the group targeting businesspeople.

The 'Assassinate Wall Street' Movie

tim.graham — Fri, 31 May 2013 20:17:40 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Usually movie makers strive to stay ahead of the cultural curve. It makes them “visionaries,” who are “cutting edge,” because they “push the envelope.” Two years ago, “Occupy Wall Street” was the hot fad, stoking the usual left-wing outrage at bankers and the finance industry, who were portrayed as greedheads never held accountable for their crimes. Businessmen just twirl their mustaches and laugh evil laughs.

NYT Movie Critic Taunts 'Strongly Conservative' Wildfire Victims on Climate Change

clay.waters — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:55:27 +0000

Clay Waters

New York Times movie critic Jeannette Catsoulis enthused over "Greedy Lying Bastards," a left-wing attack on global warming skeptics, and strangely suggested that an increased gas tax could prevent wildfires in Colorado. The Times illustrated the review with a photo from the doc featuring wreckage from Hurric

NYT's Rohter Finds Parallel Between Tea Party and Chilean Dictator Gen. Pinochet

clay.waters — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:03:22 +0000

Clay Waters

Larry Rohter, who was perhaps the New York Times' most biased reporter during the 2008 campaign (beating some stiff competition) now works the foreign arts beat. In a Sunday Arts & Leisure profile of Pablo Larrain, director of the movie "No," about the 1988 vote that ended the long dictatorship of Gen.

Jerusalem Bureau Chief Worried Israelis Aren't Listening to Left-Wing Movie Advocating Withdrawal

clay.waters — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:33:21 +0000

Clay Waters

New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, who has courted controversy from pro-Israel conservatives during her brief tenure, appeared in the Sunday Arts section to express concern over the muted reception in Israel to the new documentary "The Gatekeepers," an unflattering look back at Israel's Shin Bet, the country's security service: "'Most Israelis Ar

Obama Protects Hollywood

tim.graham — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:31:14 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

President Obama and Vice President Biden gathered their children for a photo-op as Obama showily signed executive orders to prevent future mass shootings. It quickly became obvious that regulating the entertainment media wasn’t part of his solution. Politics once more trumped policy.

Hollywood not only went unregulated, it went unmentioned. Biden announced that he had met with “229 groups from law enforcement agencies to public health officials to gun officials to gun advocacy groups to sportsmen and hunters and religious leaders.”