Politicizing Ironman

Fantastic Gawker sci-fi blog io9 writes about the upcoming film extension of the Iron Man franchise.
The film’s strength, they argue, arrives from the flexibility of its political message. Too, they say, it exceeds the source material by politicizing and moralizing rather dry super-hero style material with a storyline about American corporatist interventionism and weapons proliferation. [...]

REMIX: There Will Be Vader

A brilliant and impressive remix of the Star Wars (episodes 4-6) with There Will Be Blood. Darth Vader is re-dubbed as Daniel Day Lewis’ Daniel Planview character. Only makes sense if you’ve seen the second film, probably — but well worth it if you have.
The strength of this work is another argument for supporting [...]

Standard Operating Procedure - trailer for the new Abu Ghraib doc

Trailer for Standard Operating Procedure a new Abu Ghraib documentary by award-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris.