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...reason for the cheers and fatwas: Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore's impassioned indictment of the Iraq invasion, which he made and starred in. It earned an astounding $119 million at the North American box office, nearly five times as much as the previous top-grossing nonfiction film - his own Bowling for Columbine. That fall Moore, never a shy guy, used his newfound political bulk to get out the youth vote for the Democratic presidential ticket, touring 62 venues, most of them college campuses, in the 45 days before the election. He was such a big target that his enemies and enviers...
...Called Captain Mike Across America when it played to two packed houses at last year's Toronto Film Festival, the film details Moore's attempt to get young people, traditionally the least likely voters, off their duffs and into the polling booth. Slacker Uprising, shot and edited by Bernardo Loyola, is the hagiographic record of that tour...
...left-wing teachers, ACLU lawyers (they're portrayed as zombies gunned down by Judge Dennis Hopper) and, for raising taxes during a recession and suggesting that Israel practices apartheid, Jimmy Carter; he's seen presiding over a Surrender Ceremony with China. To prove it's fair and balanced, the film - which was not screened in advance for the press but was shown to 2,500 delegates during the Republican National Convention - also has a Larry Craig joke. Malone asks, "You heard the rumors about Lincoln being gay?" Patton replies, "Maybe he just had a wide stance...
...clean and strongly contrasting black and white portraits. “Stampede” and other works from the Canadian Cities Project are unfocused, unclean, and inscrutable. The exception to this rule comes in a pair of images that Karsh took while on the set of the 1964 film “Zulu,” which show the actual Zulu warriors staring up at movie screens in expressions of pure delight, joy, and wonderment. Some of Karsh’s earliest work, while not quite so brilliant as those later portraits, prove to be interesting from the historical perspective...
...only brilliant in theory. The mixture of these pop icons, each of whom has proven masterful on a singular level (yes, even the porn stars), is not only toxic, but pitiful. While isolated moments prove funny—mostly because they’re outrageous—the film is a total flop, a rare tapestry of hilarious individuals who flounder in the wake of inexcusably bad writing, a terrible plot, and unbearable clichés. The setting is Monroeville, Pa., a typically gritty Smith-style suburb in which vulgarity seeps out of the gutters. Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth...