Subject: Michael Moore

• Baby, It's Warm Outside

  The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and headed into whatever anti-Semitic Mel Gibson "Christian" movie was playing at the time. Well, fear not, Samson and Delilah: there is a new global-warming documentary coming that's especially for lov

  September 12, 2006

• Get Sicko This Saturday - Updated

  Michael Moore's new film Sicko, a comedic documentary about the U.S. health care system, opens nationwide June 29—but this Saturday (June 23), the University Town Center theater will be hosting a special sneak preview, presumably to get ahead of all the bootlegs that have been leaking out. UPDATED:Show time is 7 p.m. Tickets are for sale at the box office, and online at Fandango. The theater is located at 4245 Campus Dr., Irvine.

  June 18, 2007

• Chalk Up Another Good Movie Night

  Co-producer Larkin Akel, a resident of Irvine, will be appearing this weekend at the Friday and Saturday 7 p.m. screenings of her movie Chalk, opening at the Westpark cinema, 3755 Alton Pkwy., Irvine. I had a chance to see Chalk last year at the Los Angeles Film Festival, before it was officially a Morgan Spurlock presentation. It's a great comedy that has been accurately compared to The Office and Waiting for Guffman . . . I might even add Reno 911 to that list (if you like all three of thos

  June 19, 2007

• LAFF 2007: Dancin' to the Jailhouse Doc

  June 23, 2007

• LAFF 2007: Westside Ain't the Best Side

  Friday at the fest was a little bit different -- all the interesting-looking films were playing at the Landmark Westside, that new fancy art-house 12-plex at the Westside Pavilion. Parking there is free, unlike in Westwood, where everything else is happening. The trade-off you make is that beer is not free. I tried a $12 Avant-Garde Ale at the theaters beer and wine bar -- it came in a big bottle and was worth $12. A bit French-tasting, so probably not recommended for Republicans. Likewise, the

  June 30, 2007

• Sick Over Sicko

  Whether you love him or love to hate him, Michael Moore and his new film, Sicko, have ruffled enough feathers and generated enough outrage in the past few weeks that Americans are now actually talking more intelligently about health care in the U.S. You can now overhear post-film arguments laced with formerly policy-wonk-only lingo like "single-payer." The Register runs a long list of published and additional reader comments today, with a series of anecdotes not unlike the horrific ones feature

  July 12, 2007

• NBFF: Snow Jobs and Sausages

  Sometimes I wonder about the power of coincidence. Both times I've covered the Newport Beach Film Festival, I have been unable to attend every day because some or other duty at the office ends up taking a lot more of my time than expected. So I was called home on Tuesday, thereby missing both THE REST IS SILENCE (which fest staffer Jay has been recommending to me all week) and THE SEEKERS (made by my friend Diana Ljungaes). I was fortunate enough to see on the big screen a short that I actually

  May 1, 2008

• See the Wingless Bird!

  November 21, 2002

• Mackerel Flats' Folks Leaning Toward Obama? Who Knew?

  Around 11 this morning, KPCC 89.3 FM's AirTalk show presented a call-in segment called "I Didn't Know My Neighbor Was Voting For (Fill In The Blank)!" Host Larry Mantle wanted to know whether anyone's neighbors put political signs on their front lawns that surprised the listener. First caller Garrett of Newport Beach said he is seeing a lot more Obama for President signs in front of houses in his neighborhood (including his own) than he would have expected in the heart of conservative Orange C

  October 21, 2008

• Spinning Out of Control

  July 8, 2004

• Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 24, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More

  October 23, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 23, 2008

• Iraq War Movie 'Stop-Loss' Does Its Best Not to Mention the War

  March 27, 2008

• American Heroes and Zeroes

  Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine at sundance '08

  January 31, 2008

• DVDish

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! The Kids Were Alright

  November 8, 2007

• Take a Chance

  September 16, 2004

• Letters

  May 1, 2003

• Dr. Feelgood

  Sickos pill goes down easy, but its diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates

  June 28, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Sicko

  June 21, 2007

• Summer Cinema: A Vaguely Helpful Guide

  Ten films to see, five worth a look, and five more to shield your eyes from

  June 7, 2007

• Agit-Docs

  May 20, 2004

• We Aren't the World

  How the Americans fared at Cannes

  May 31, 2007

• Is There a Doctor in the House?

  Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

  May 24, 2007

• The Awful Truth in Austin, Texas

  The case against Michael Moore and for B-list celebs at SXSW

  March 15, 2007

• Goat Sucking

  October 19, 2006

• Fakes On a Plane

  August 17, 2006

• Well-Behaved Nations Rarely Make History

  April 7, 2005

• Good Eats!

  December 9, 2004

• No Moore!

  December 9, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Letters

  September 23, 2004

• Letters

  September 9, 2004

• The Summer: No Bummer

  September 2, 2004

• Anti-War, Pissed Off and Read All Over

  July 29, 2004

• The Go-Gos: The Beat Goes On

  July 22, 2004

• Burn, Bubba, Burn

  June 24, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 13, 2004

• EIGHT DAYS

  March 11, 2004

• American Bigmouth

  March 4, 2004

• Remember the Maines

  July 24, 2003

• Fighting Ire With Ire

  April 24, 2003

• Aiming to please

  October 17, 2002

• Stupid Green People

  October 10, 2002

• Organ Music

  August 15, 2002

• Letters

  January 18, 2001

• Bobbing for Airtime

  October 19, 2000

• Letters

  April 29, 1999

• Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

  Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion Bailey, an actor you may remember from TV's ER, took some friends and a film crew into a remote mountain village in Peru to see if they could change the lives of the people there in one week. Hi

  September 17, 2009

• Conan O'Brien at Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention in Anaheim

  Conan O'Brien has been doing his show on the west coast since June, but it took him until last night to make it to Orange County. Well, technically speaking, this segment was filmed at the Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention at the Hilton Anaheim and Honda Center, which took place June 28 through July 5. But the bit didn't air until last night, so, y'know.As far as "Conan interacts with eccentric folks who take themselves surprisingly seriously" go, it's no "Conan playing old-tim

  October 2, 2009