Acting Out
Buy Me Love
Oscar Grouching
The Oscar nominations rolled on out this week, but with a difference: In a rather explicit admission that it does not trust its own judgment, the Academy has upped the number of Best Picture nominees from the usual five to ten. Let’s begin there. Best Picture READ MORE >>
The Orrscars 2009
Is The RNC a Terrorist Organization?
The jury may still be out, but this photograph of Michael Steele trading a terrorist fist jab with an RNC intern is certainly suggestive. For the love of God, Mike, he's only a child! Do you want him to grow up to be a suicide bomber? READ MORE >>
The Mini-Review: 'Invictus'
Though the story is set in South Africa, Clint Eastwood’s Invictus is a hybrid of classic American forms, the triumphant sports movie and the high-minded political film. There is much to like in the film, and a fair amount one might dislike as well, but in the end one’s overall feelings are likely depend on one’s enthusiasm for these genres in general and for their peculiar marriage in this instance. READ MORE >>
For the Friend Who Has Everything
It Wasn't the Crime, It Was the Getting Caught
Alberto Gonzalez is strikingly blunt (and arguably stupid) in an interview with Esquire: READ MORE >>
Has Natalie Portman (Finally) Grown Up?
In her review of Brothers, Slate's Dana Stevens discloses READ MORE >>
Would Palin Pull a Hoffman?
If Sarah Palin fails to win the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 (or declines to try), will she consider mounting a third-party bid? I don't know and, at this point, neither does she. And it seems awfully unlikely for all the obvious reasons. READ MORE >>
