The 'Ides of March' Misses the Mark

One of the things that most interested me about the previews and articles on George Clooney's latest (and very politically-themed and high-quality) directorial effort , The Ides of March, was that Clooney acquired the rights to the source material in late 2008, but held off on it for well over a …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Saturday October 8, 2011

The Culture War Gets Visceral in `Red State'

In 1970, Roger Ebert called his and Russ Meyer's quintessential sexploitation comedy Beyond the Valley of the Dolls a "horror comedy satire". Add the adjectives "political" and "religious", and the same thing can be said of Kevin Smith's latest black comedy, Red State, where the smoke of the …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday September 16, 2011