It has been said that Harriet Beecher Stowe helped start the Civil War with her novel, Uncle Toms Cabin, which enumerated the evils of slavery in shocking detail to a nation that had all but turned a blind eye to what was known as the peculiar institution. It may just be the idealist in my… Read More »
SICKO
Click here to listen to the interview with Michael Moore for BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE.Click here for the DVD review of SICKO.There is an “aha” moment in SiCKO that is so stunning, so irrefutable in its logic, that it distills the entire argument against for-profit medicine on its head and then sends it scurrying for cover,… Read More »
SICKO — DVD
Click here to listen to Michael Moore interviewed for BOWLING FOR COUMBINE.My favorite moment in Michael Moore’s SICKO is one that had nothing to do with Moore directly. He merely recounts the story. A man unhappy with having his claim rejected by his insurance provider informed said provider that Moore’s new documentary project was an… Read More »
THE CORPORATION
Fans of conspiracy theories will be sorely disappointed by the incisive and disconcerting documentary, THE CORPORATION. Whatever dark and paranoid fantasies that contingent has spun over the years about a secret cabal running the world, the facts that filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan bring to the screen are worse. Instead of a… Read More »