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Watch Comedy From Obama, O'Brien, Spielberg at the White House Correspondents Dinner
This year's White House Correspondents' Dinner gave us a few insights about comedy:
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Leftwing Doc-Makers No Longer Easy On Obama
Are progressive documentary filmmakers finished with giving Barack Obama a free pass?
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What's More Inane than "2016: Obama's America" Filmmakers Whining About Oscar?
What's more inane? That Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of "Schindler’s List "and "2016: Obama's America" and the doc's director Dinesh D’Souza believe they should have been on the Oscar shortlist for best documentary? Or that The Hollyw...
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Critic's Notebook: Is Barack Obama a Bigger Movie Star Than Brad Pitt?
Obama often invokes Ronald Reagan as both a communicator and a pragmatic political actor skilled in leading executive compromise, but their presentational modes couldn't be more different. So what does "Killing Them Softly" have to say about the recently re-elected president?
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Watch: Political YouTube Filmmaking Duo Returns to Their Roots with Disheartening Video from Romney Rally (Video)
The young Ohio-based political filmmakers Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll, who upload videos to YouTube as New Left Media, are back to their roots via 'man on the street' interviews with Americans that show how strongly held convictions can be, even if they are incredibly ignorant.
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Watch: Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria Join Celebrity Pleas for Obama Reelection (VIDEO)
tWith under a week to go before Election Day, many Hollywood figures have been coming out of the woodwork to provide their own spin on why America should reelect Barack Obama. Adding to the ranks are Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington, and Eva Longoria, whose colloborative video for MoveOn.org cut...
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How Much Controversy Does the Weinsteins' 'SEAL Team Six' Actually Merit?
The Weinstein Company's "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden" premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 4th, marking the first foray into an original scripted film for a network previously associated with nature programming. It's also a new brush with ...
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Watch: Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her First Time... Voting for Obama (VIDEO)
Emmy nominee Lena Dunham has been getting quite political of late, having appeared in this week's "You Don't Own Me" anti-Republican PSA, and now today in another Barack Obama-endorsing video, in which she stresses that your "first time" should be with a "great guy&q...
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Obama, Romney and Tom Hanks in SNL's Debate
Were all the “binders full of women” jokes used up? SNL’s debate sketch ignored the most popular satirical target from the last Presidential debate, focusing instead on the candidates' pugnacious attitudes, with the added attraction of Tagg Romney promising to punch the Pr...
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SNL and the Post-Debate Fallout (The Horror, The Horror!)
It’s a good thing SNL had the presidential debate as fodder, because they absolutely wasted Daniel Craig. And while Jay Pharoah continues to struggle with his Obama impression (why the grimace? Obama doesn’t channel Denzel Washington) the sketches included a very funny, perfectly&nd...
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