The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore’s “Capitalism – A Love Story” came out on second run theaters – it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect that Moore has on his audience derives from the personal stories he relates combined with a sense of humour that highlights the bizarre nature of our capitalist society.

Many of us can still remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the morning of April 30, 1975 when the American media reported that Saigon had “fallen” and had been renamed Ho Chi Minh City, and that the decades-long nightmare was finally over.

A progressive interviewer recently asked Michael Moore, "Are you a socialist?" He avoided a direct answer, which he typically does when questioned like this. This time he responded defensively, “I never read Marx.” The short of it, Michael Moore is a filmmaker. A damn good one too.

It hasn't quite hit me that "Capitalism: A Love Story," my new film, will be opening in theaters in New York and L.A. just one week from tomorrow. And everywhere else on October 2nd. Is it already the fall?

Sacha Baron Cohen has a tendency to pick the scabs off of our societal infections, if only to look closely at the festering within. Cohen, who turned the mirror on southern US conventions in last year’s Borat, exposing the racism and xenophobia that lurks in Dixie – and points east and west.

We live in the era of the global commons, but very few have actually met their neighbors – except as subalterns: household maids, hotel service-workers, nannies, most likely college-educated women from the Philippines.

The biographical facts about the life of Eddie Adams are clear. He photographed 13 wars and six US presidents, and almost every other culturally and historically important person. He had a hell of a career.

Rolf is a Swiss-born security guard in a German department story. He becomes totally infatuated with Sarah, the store's book seller. The problem is that she doesn’t know it. He just follows her every movement on the store's security cameras.

Close on the heels of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration with its focus on public honesty and sacrifice, Kirsten Price's new music video shines a tender light on the human price paid by the Bush administration's war veterans.

With the exception of films like "The Visitor" and "Slumdog Millionaire," 2008 filmgoers were presented with a fistful of downers. Critics whose profession involves decoding such phenomena attributed it to late blooming revulsion over the eight-year tragedy of the Bush administration.

Richard Yates' novel Revolutionary road is a story about a couple, Frank and April Wheeler, (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the film), who move to the suburbs in Connecticut.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.

In Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster movie Australia, Nicole Kidman plays English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, who arrives in 1939 at the outback station of Faraway Downs to rescue it from financial ruin. Hugh Jackman plays The Drover, her main hope of doing so.

On July 16, 1945, 35 miles east of the dusty town of Socorro in Southeast New Mexico, the first atomic weapon was tested. The weapon would, within the month, be credited with ending the Second World War.

I am very proud of what I did at Halliburton. And the people of Halliburton are very proud of what they've done. --Dick Cheney 2000. Billions in no-bid contracts and massive corruption – of course they're proud.

Given that the US appears to have abandoned any notion of truth and justice in its pursuit of the American way, it appears that Hollywood has decided to follow its political precedent and provide another court jester.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a dauntless, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.

I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes.

Terrorism or an act of nature? What has suddenly struck New York causing thousands of deaths and panic across the Northeast? People become disoriented, and construction workers and early morning pedestrians commit suicide en masse.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a daunt, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.