The advance buzz around Drive, the movie about a Hollywood stunt driver played by Ryan Gosling, got me to thinking: We have lots of movies featuring cars, from Bullitt to The Fast and Furious, but where are the movies about car companies?
When the Smart car wanted to sell you a new model earlier this year, instead of talking about the usual advertising claims, like how great the car drives and how fuel efficient it is, Smart USA took a radically different approach. It came out with an idea of being against certain things. It asked you, the consumer, to think about what you were against in life, like excess stuff you buy but don't need, McMansions with four car garages and of course gas guzzlers.
Question: What happens when a society can no longer feed itself?
An infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love.
When Danish auteur Lars von Trier presented his gothic thriller, "Antichrist" at Cannes Film Festival last month, it was greeted with cat-calls, jeers and, at times, disbelieving laughter.
A star of XXX-rated movies talks about life and achieving liftoff
Sure, he writes, produces and stars in the FX firefighter drama Rescue Me, but Denis Leary recently found himself mistaken for another star.
This is the time of year you see all those articles about summer reading -- that is, if they didn't all appear a month ago around Memorial Day.
It's an intense James Bond scenario: The secret agent rappels down the side of an exploding building while aiming and firing at enemies who are also scaling down at breakneck speeds.
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