Bill Maher
Bill Maher on Donald Trump, liberal activism, and GOP responsibility
The outspoken TV show host on how Donald Trump happened, and how the left can come to grips with losing
Real talk
Bob Rae and Bill Maher are apparently feuding—background here and here—over the seal hunt.
This week: Newsmakers
Kim Campbell schools the U.S. right, Naomi Campbell’s ‘Frost-Nixon moment,’ and Nabokov was right
Opening Weekend: Due Date, Megamind, Fair Game
Robert Downey Jr. plays it straight, and gives stoner boy Zach Galifianakis a master class in acting
The new Siskel
The Heritage Minister recommends (scroll down slightly) some documentaries. Likely disqualifies himself from ever presiding over tourism portfolio with selections of Jesus Camp and Religulous.
Film Reviews: ‘Blindness,’ ‘Rachel Getting Married,’ ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,’ ‘Religulous,’ ‘How to Lose Friends & Alienate People’
A big slate this weekend. The movie of the moment that everyone’s raving about, me included, is Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married. It’s a must-see, and Anne Hathaway is Oscar’s first It Girl. Then there’s a deck of jokers to choose from—Canada’s Michael Cera, America’s Bill Maher and Britain’s Simon Pegg—in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Religulous and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People respectively. But if you’re in the mood for a thought-provoking drama to accompany world economic collapse, the movie of choice is Blindness. This elegant disaster movie—a Canadian co-production blessed with an unusually wide North American release—is no walk in the park. But with the world as we know it going down the tubes, it has a timely resonance and gives you something to talk about after the final credits.
Preaching to the unconverted
Bill Maher pitches ‘Religulous’ as a ‘Passion of the Christ’ for the faithless multitude