Blog Entries tagged 'film'

where am i?

dswanson

Last weekend a couple of friends and I met up with an acquaintance from the west coast. The coffee shop where we met is one of many stores making up one of the ever-present strip malls in our town. I wasn't thinking about this landscape until our new west coast friend pointed out that it would be hard for him to know that we were having our conversation in the Midwest and not Seattle. The chain stores surrounding us could be found in most every city in the USA and made it tough to know ou [...]

Visual Dysentery, is there healthcare for what we visually ingest?

thom

I have read a great deal about Sicko and much more about what others have thought about it. I have read the impact it has made on how people view the health care system here in the United States of America. Most of these viewers seem to take the stance that they are glad someone took the time to bring this discussion to the table located in the public commons. That position is primarily due to the important nature of the state of the American health care system. What I find odd is; all of [...]

when does this movie come out?

eric

welcome to the first addition of my blog on rednoW. no doubt you were all teaming with anticipation for this day to come. but, lucky for you, the wait is over. i am hoping to keep it regular – once a week – but if i miss a week don’t send out the search party…i probably just got lazy or didn’t have anything to say.
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sicko debuts on skid row... why?

dswanson

On Sunday I drove into Chicago with a friend to see the new Michael Moore documentary, Sicko . I briefly reviewed the film for rednow so there's no need to say much here. One thing I didn't mention about Sicko in my review was where it debuted. According to John Horn at the LA Times,

Hollywood loves to hold movie premieres in unusual places � on aircraft carriers, in Disneyland, inside Alcatraz. Michael Moore decided to unveil his new healthcare documentary, [...]