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Michael Pollan

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    April 16, 2009

    5 More NBFF Recommendations (and 4 Other Ones)

    Here's the thing about several films screening at the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30: many entries have been shown at earlier festivals in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Since the Weekly is part of a chain with papers in ... More >>

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    April 22, 2009

    Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: Dueling Food Documentaries

    While the Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation, was hailed as a muckraking expose on the food industry in the same mold as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, I thought it failed as a film.  Here now is Food Inc., made by Robert Kenner, produced by the people behind Inconvenient Truth, repackaged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Newport Beach Film Fest: Final Stretch Report

    The big question on the mind of anyone amid the crowds at Edwards Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights was: My God, don't these people work? And a second: Don't they know we're teetering on Depression? Finally: Buddy, can you spare a ticket?   T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    "Food Inc." Opens At Edwards University: A Review of the Film

    Food Inc. puts forth a lot of information, some of which I already knew:  - Corn and its derivates inhabit just about everything we buy from the supermarket. - Factory farming leads to crowded feed lots where cows stand in their own feces and to lightless henhouses where chickens bred to grow ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2010

    The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

    Food Inc. puts forth a lot of information, some of which I already knew:  - Corn and its derivates inhabit just about everything we buy from the supermarket. - Factory farming leads to crowded feed lots where cows stand in their own feces and to lightless henhouses where chickens bred to grow ... More >>

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