The Matrix & Other 9/11 Hollywood Symbolism
Among the interesting references to 9/11 that were released before 9/11 is a passport for ‘Neo’ in blockbuster film The Matrix (released in 1999) which expires ‘11 SEP 01.’
Among the interesting references to 9/11 that were released before 9/11 is a passport for ‘Neo’ in blockbuster film The Matrix (released in 1999) which expires ‘11 SEP 01.’
From Virginia Tech’s Cho to Hannibal Lecter, exaggerated portraits of mental illness show how much we have yet to learn about
psychiatric disorders.
Stoners in the Mist is one of the most offensive and outrageous pieces of anti-drug propaganda ever produced.
MPAA wants to randomly break your home theater depending on which channel you’re watching
The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to lard cable television with “selectable output control,” a DRM system that allows broadcasters to specify which of your TV devices can decode which shows. With selectable output control, parts of your home theater would go [...]
Katherine Heigl regularly speaks up about sexism in Hollywood. For that, she is labeled ungrateful and her career has been declared dead.
Canadian officials knew youth was being tortured
By Michelle Shephard | The first time Omar Khadr was questioned, he was lying in a military hospital bed in Afghanistan with two gaping holes in his chest – the exit wounds of the bullets that were shot through his back before his capture by U.S. Special Forces.
Interrogators [...]
With military assistance, moviemakers get access to bases, ships, planes, tanks and Humvees. Military leaders also offer script advice. And unless a filmmaker agrees to address any problems, the Pentagon generally opts out.
“Hancock” is supposed to be a wry commentary on the pressure of being Will Smith, but the meesage gets lost in a big-budget Hollywood train wreck.
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By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland “is set to become another Israel within five years”. “[A]nti-terror measures will soon become a common feature of life”, he assured the audience, and called for “routine arming of [...]
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Retrofitting women to make them sexually attractive and “marriageable” is more than a Hollywood fad. It’s life or death for many.
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When are we going to see a slacker, overweight female lead who’s married to her bong score with a hot, successful dreamboat?
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Sex and the City killed at the box office. Maybe now Hollywood will stop only making movies geared at teen boys.
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In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.
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While champagne corks pop in West Hollywood, this election season, LGBT rights activists are gearing up for what could be the fight of their lives.
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The air-brushed Hollywood stars that populate PSAs aren’t likely to tackle truly controversial issues any time soon.
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If there’s one thing Hollywood heavy-hitters excel at, it’s shamelessly manipulating audiences. Why don’t politicians take advantage of their talents?
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Hillary Clinton is not a former anti-establishment “leftist,” but a slick minion of the New World Order
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