It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.
In this election, the biggest celebrities are running for office.
Inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, Michael Moore will release his new film online and for free
Madonna's new film on the impoverished nation of Malawi has wowed another maker of documentaries: Michael Moore
"Larry King Live" has devoted lots of time to the views of all the presidential candidates and their backers. Last week, King spoke to Sen. Hillary Clinton, and there's a standing invitation to all three candidates to appear as guests on his show any night.
Morgan Spurlock scored a breakout hit with his documentary "Super Size Me" a few years ago, mixing satire, reportage and advocacy in the tabloid style popularized by Michael Moore. Spurlock may not have finished off junk food as we know it, but at least he could claim some responsibility for highlighting the flaws of fast food.
Searching for Osama bin laden, the Super Size Me guy has an extremist adventure
A gunman locked in a standoff with Los Angeles police for nearly 12 hours was shot and killed Thursday by officers inside a home, police said.
Ellen Page's 16-year-old mom-to-be Juno and George Clooney's sleazy Michael Clayton are among the films named as The Writers Guild of America's best of 2007.
Roger Smith, who led General Motors through a turbulent period of change and plant closings and became famous to a broader cross-section of Americans through Michael Moore's documentary "Roger and Me," has died, the automaker said Friday.
It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.
In this election, the biggest celebrities are running for office.
Inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, Michael Moore will release his new film online and for free
Madonna's new film on the impoverished nation of Malawi has wowed another maker of documentaries: Michael Moore
"Larry King Live" has devoted lots of time to the views of all the presidential candidates and their backers. Last week, King spoke to Sen. Hillary Clinton, and there's a standing invitation to all three candidates to appear as guests on his show any night.
Morgan Spurlock scored a breakout hit with his documentary "Super Size Me" a few years ago, mixing satire, reportage and advocacy in the tabloid style popularized by Michael Moore. Spurlock may not have finished off junk food as we know it, but at least he could claim some responsibility for highlighting the flaws of fast food.
Searching for Osama bin laden, the Super Size Me guy has an extremist adventure
A gunman locked in a standoff with Los Angeles police for nearly 12 hours was shot and killed Thursday by officers inside a home, police said.
Ellen Page's 16-year-old mom-to-be Juno and George Clooney's sleazy Michael Clayton are among the films named as The Writers Guild of America's best of 2007.
Roger Smith, who led General Motors through a turbulent period of change and plant closings and became famous to a broader cross-section of Americans through Michael Moore's documentary "Roger and Me," has died, the automaker said Friday.
Todd Robinson doesn't need Michael Moore to tell him the health insurance system in the United States is in crisis.
They are known as the "West Memphis Three" -- young men who were arrested as teens and convicted of a triple killing with occult overtones that chills this working-class Mississippi River town to this day.
Maybe you have a cough that won't go away or you've found an odd lump in a usually lumpless part of your body. You're worried -- could it be serious?
The Film Festival commemorates a sad anniversary with a host of political movies
Because you weren't going into botany, the priesthood, or coin manufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude.
In response to a letter Michael Moore wrote about CNN's reporting on his documentary "Sicko," a CNN spokesperson released the following statement:
In a combative interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Michael Moore lambasted the Situation Room host - and the mainstream media in general - for misrepresenting his healthcare documentary, Sicko, and for failing to heed the warnings of Fahrenheit 9/11, his 2004 film about the buildup to the Iraq war.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose new documentary "Sicko" takes on America's health care system, faced off Tuesday with CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Michael Moore's "Sicko," which opened nationwide Friday, is filled with horror stories of people who are deprived of medical service because they can't afford it or haven't been able to navigate the murky waters of managed care in the United States.
America's most inspired polemicist -- and most polarizing filmmaker -- Michael Moore returns to the fray with his first movie since "Fahrenheit 9/11" broke box-office records and challenged George W. Bush's White House.
With his controversial film opening nationwide, the big money behind big medicine is ready to battle Michael Moore
The director talks about piracy, Cuba and discovering he is no longer an extremist.
For a festival celebrating its 60th year, the Cannes Film Festival proved mighty frisky. Sure, a handful of the 21 international titles in competition were dolorous arthouse tush-testers - but enough films pleased, entertained and touched a viewer that Cannes 2007 turned out to be memorable.
Filmmaker Michael Moore is being sued by an armless Iraqi war veteran who says Moore's controversial movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," used clips without his permission that misrepresented the veteran and his sentiments about the war.
EXECUTIVES AT WAL-MART ARE WORRIED THAT ROBERT Greenwald's new documentary film about the company--Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price--could become a cult hit on the order of Michael Moore's anti...
The White House accused a senior House Democrat -- and a decorated Vietnam veteran -- who called for a swift withdrawal from Iraq of advocating surrender, comparing him to anti-war filmmaker Michael Moore.
Executives at Wal-Mart are worried that Robert Greenwald's new documentary film about the company -- "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" -- could become a cult hit on the order of Michael Moore's anti-GM rant, "Roger & Me." So my first piece of advice to CEO Lee Scott and his team is: Stop worrying about the movie.
Politicians are like movie stars. They can make us laugh or cry or choke on our popcorn.
Tom Brokaw has signed a two-book deal with Random House, the publisher announced Monday, although what the former NBC anchor will actually write and when the books will be published remain unknown.
What would New Year's Eve be without party favors?
Wizards, trivia buffs, millionaires and political players all had prominent parts this past year in the entertainment industry.
Controversial movie director Michael Moore, whose anti-President Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" touched off a firestorm of controversy, has topped an annual list of Hollywood's least intriguing celebrities.
In 1999, director David O. Russell showed the world a different side of battle in "Three Kings," a film set during the first Persian Gulf War.
Readers of a British magazine have rated President Bush the year's top screen villain, for his appearance in Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Ira Rennert has long nurtured a single, unlikely jewel in his business empire dominated by pollution-belching, lawsuit-ridden, money-mulching metals and mining properties: the Hummer, the boxy, 2.5...
Leave it to a group of comedians to find humor in a bomb scare.
It was an obvious jab at liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and his anti-Bush documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," and Moore was there to take the hit in person.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
A verbal jab at filmmaker Michael Moore -- as Moore watched from the press gallery -- by Sen. John McCain during his speech to Republican delegates Monday night triggered one of the evening's most boisterous responses. So rousing, in fact, that it prompted McCain to repeat the remark for effect.
Republican Sen. John McCain, a popular moderate, delivered a hearty endorsement Monday night of President Bush, describing him as a "tested" leader who remains unbowed in the face of terrorism.
Posted: 11:45 p.m. ET From Sean Loughlin, CNN.com, and Todd Leopold, CNN.com
Speaker after speaker Monday evening at the Republican National Convention said that President Bush's decisive declaration at one of the scenes of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, demonstrated the need to re-elect him.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators carrying signs and chanting "No More Bush" marched Sunday past Madison Square Garden, the site of the Republican National Convention, which opened Monday.
Say campaign to a computer-game addict, and he's more likely to think Alien vs. Predator than Kerry vs. Bush.
People are really hating right now," Jim Lehrer, public television's lion of civility, said a few weeks ago. "Our e-mails and our phone calls reflect not a lot of open minds out there."
It was a party with a purpose -- and also one of the hottest tickets in town -- a star-studded gala benefit hosted by the Creative Coalition, in partnership with the Recording Industry Association of America.
We get our first glimpse this morning of the nine-minute biopic they'll formally unveil before John Kerry speaks tonight, yet another scripted image that Camp Kerry doles out to news-starved networks looking for love.
CNN's Tom Foreman was working on a taped segment about "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore when the door to the news trailer opened and someone said, "He's here."
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
In "Anchorman," Will Ferrell plays Ron Burgundy, a pompous, vain, shallow-minded local news anchor.
It looks as though Spider-Man has snared another box-office record in his web.
This is the time of year you see all those articles about summer reading -- that is, if they didn't all appear a month ago around Memorial Day.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore called the opening weekend numbers for his documentary "mind-boggling" and credited his political opponents for boosting ticket sales.
Some movies win Academy Awards. Others win film festival prizes. But this week, a movie has won the most coveted prize of all -- the political Play of the Week.
The Bush administration "made a half-hearted effort" in pursuing Osama bin Laden immediately after the September 11 attacks, and devoted resources to invading Iraq instead, Michael Moore said in an interview, defending points he's made in his new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Filmmaker Michael Moore tends to make his points with a sledgehammer, and his anti-Bush administration documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" is no exception. But this time around he uses more delicate instruments as well, and what emerges is a powerful film.
The Germans have a word for it: "zeitgeist," or the "spirit of the age."
Who says you can't achieve fame and fortune with an independent movie, filmed entirely in Aramaic and Latin?
Michael Moore couldn't have asked for a better buildup to "Fahrenheit 9/11," the anti-Bush flick expected to break box office records for a documentary, if he had tried. That's assuming, of course, he isn't trying.
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo announced Tuesday that he will be fighting to get the widest available audience for Michael Moore's movie "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Amid Disney's previous objections, Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is scheduled for release next week. But the movie that criticizes the Bush administration's policies in the wake of the September 11 attacks faces another challenge.
Amid Disney's previous objections, Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is scheduled for release next week, but the movie that criticizes the Bush administration's policies in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks faces another challenge.
Michael Moore's controversial documentary criticizing President Bush could be in theaters before the end of the month, according to published reports.
He won't be welcome at the Republican National Convention this summer.
Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to resounding applause from film critics.
The 57th annual Cannes Film Festival has opened with strife, star power and a 12-day lineup of the usual mix of glitz, glamour and controversy.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore has accused the Walt Disney Company of stifling free speech by blocking the distribution of his new movie critical of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has said the Walt Disney Company is blocking distribution of his new film critical of U.S. President George W. Bush. He spoke to CNN anchor Hala Gorani about the controversy.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary critical of President Bush, and linking him with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden, is sparking the latest fight within Walt Disney Co.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said the Walt Disney Company has blocked distribution of his new film critical of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Filmmaker and author Michael Moore, one of America's most outspoken liberals, has announced his choice for the Democratic presidential nomination: retired Gen. Wesley Clark.
Disabled Americans deserve the same right as everyone else to access and accommodation at government buildings, such as courthouses and schools, a lawyer for two Tennessee paraplegics told the Supreme Court Tuesday.
As the famous South Park tune went, "Everything's gone wrong since Canada came along!" Not long ago France was the country that Americans loved to hate. But these days our enmity seems to have shif...
It's a Sunday evening in downtown Manhattan, where an upscale crowd of 200 moviegoers is receiving some vital "truths" about American enterprise--tales of unbridled greed and worker oppression. As ...
Like a medieval knight jousting somewhere in hell, a guy on a forklift truck fitted with a stout metal battering ram takes aim and lunges toward a square portal filled with fire. Sparks and smoke s...
Some movies carry warnings about sex, but only one runs a disclaimer in the titles that it may be ''offensive to young children, vegetarians, and General Motors shareholders.'' Pets or Meat: The Re...
Lately, what's looked good to Americans hasn't been good for General Motors. Car buyers have continued to switch to imports, depressing GM's share of new- auto sales from 41.5% in 1986 to 34.7% las...
Forget the Japanese. General Motors CEO Roger Smith now has something else to worry about: a new film that makes him look worse than a used-car salesman. Smith, 64, is a principal character in Roge...
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