AltWeeklies Wire
'War, Inc.': Savage Satire Compares to Reality
The would-be comic lampoonery, about a time when all wars are outsourced, mirrors the realities of America's corporate-enabled occupation of Iraq.
No More Student Loans? Good.
The credit card has made it harder to get college student loans. This is a silver lining of recession: a market-driven force that could push down skyrocketing tuition.
Obama: The Other White Meat
Barack Obama promises change. When he gets the chance to start a national conversation about U.S. foreign policy, however, he punts.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
05-07-2008 |
Commentary
'Speed Racer': The Wachowskis Make Summer Family Fun
The Wachowski Brothers achieve a divine vision of psychedelic visual ecstasy, while digging deep into a campy comic/dramatic tone that speaks to audiences of all ages.
Getting to Know Our Captors: Errol Morris Connects the Pictures to Their Takers
Documentarian Errol Morris effectively takes the viewer inside the atmosphere of psychological and physical abuse doled out by American military personnel at Abu Ghraib by connecting the hundreds of damning photos taken by soldiers to their context.
911 Is Our Only Hope
George W. Bush confesses to ABC News that he knew about and authorized torture of detainees, many of whom died from abuse. Forget impeachment--D.C. police must arrest the torturer and murderer at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-28-2008 |
Commentary
How Did America Get So Mean?
From wounded vets to exonerated prisoners, America is treating its citizens like dirt.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-22-2008 |
Commentary
Baby Madness: It's All in the Delivery
Baby madness happily invades the brain of Philadelphia bachelorette and thriving businesswoman Kate Holbrook (gleefully played by Tina Fey) who, at the ripe age of 37, hires a surrogate mom to birth her sperm bank assisted baby.
Tags: Baby Mama, Michael McCullers
Party Like It's 1929
The "structural recession" was declared in 1992. It's here now.
American Cinema Isn't All About Bush Anymore
Full-frontal male nudity achieves de rigueur R-rated status in American cinema thanks to the shameless efforts of Judd Apatow's gang of cutting-edge writers and directors that have delivered movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad.
John McCain, Affable Racist
It's always the same pattern. John McCain makes a racist remark. Then he apologizes. Then he does it again. When will this tired act go into retirement?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-08-2008 |
Commentary
David Ayer's 'Harsh Times' Get Harsher
A combination of implausible plot-points, and the miscasting of television's Hugh Laurie as Internal Affairs chief Captain Biggs, hampers a convoluted crime thriller that is nonetheless entertaining for its grotesque action sequences.
Tags: David Ayer, Street Kings
Don't Move Past Bush. Start Over.
We'll never, ever "move on" past George W. Bush -- unless we erase him from American history. Here's how.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-01-2008 |
Commentary
Empathy for the Stones
Martin Scorsese returns to the rock 'n' roll concert documentary genre that he helped develop in 1978 with The Last Waltz, to capture an energized performance by The Rolling Stones at New York's Beacon Theater in the fall of 2006.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
Scorsese Shines a Light on the Stones
On a cold Sunday at Manhattan's Palace Hotel, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts joined a throng of anxious journalists so we could pepper them with questions. Needless to say, Marty and the Stones looked marvelous, laughed a lot, and cracked wise to everyone's delight.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
03-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
