Political films are a tough sell in this day and age. Whether it’s the overwhelming disappointment in the past eight years of the Bush administration, or the state of the economy, Democrats and Republicans would much rather see Batman or Indiana Jones than politics on the big screen.

Two films released in 2008 attempted to utilize politics as a means to their end. Sadly, both of their ends were tragic, as were their overall usefulness in the dialogue of American political cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

Watership Down (1978)
Warner Bros./Nepenthe Productions
Starring the voice talents of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Zero Mostel
Not Rated
Running Time = 92 minutes
Available Now

Allegory – a story in which people, things, and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning: allegories are used for teaching or explaining ideas, moral principles, etc.

And again, another vocab lesson has passed. Read on.

Remember 2-D animation? Yes, there was a time when animated movies were drawn and painted by hand, without the assistance of computers. It’s a complex process that employs hundreds of hours of work and detail. The end result is a series of moving drawings on the screen. Read the rest of this entry »

Occasionally Hollywood can come together and produce content that people want to watch. I honestly don’t think the audience that Hollywood is talking to, is going to actually search for this video, but they’ll watch it once their friends talk about it.

That’s the purpose of this video. Get 5 of your friends to watch it. Hopefully they’ll register and vote when the times comes.

It’s a fun video, good laughs, and somehow minimally political.

Of course I just like The Simpsons way of handling the subject.