None of the we’re-totally-screwed documentaries we’ve seen over the past few years could've prepare us for the terrors unleashed on our minds in Chris Smith’s riveting new documentary Collapse (out today). Basically a monologue by writer and thinker Michael Ruppert about the state of the planet and the problem of peak oil (the theory that once our oil resources reach their peak and...
Chris Smith is the respectable radical. He was the first openly gay MP. As the Culture Secretary in Tony Blair’s Government, he pioneered free admissions to museums. Later, from the back benches, he masterminded opposition in the House of Commons to the war in Iraq. Now Lord Smith of Finsbury wants to start a green revolution — and the mild-mannered rambler might just succeed.
From today's Times : “The number of people claiming climate change isn’t happening is minuscule, and they have no authority among the scientific community,” [Chris Smith, head of quango The Environment Agency] says. “They are mavericks, not backed up by the evidence.” It is irrelevant, he says, that the world has recently been getting cooler. “You have to look at...
Last night I attended the first prime-time public screening for Chris Smith's Collapse at the Angelika. It played just as powerfully for me as it did in Toronto. The show was a little more than four-fifths sold out. Producer-director Chris Smith spoke before and after the film. There were many questions. More than a few people in the audience seemed fairly pumped. I was too. Collapse editor Barry Poltermann,...
Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was fading, he decided to return the next day to recover the deer. But when he returned Wednesday morning, the carcass had been covered by grass and bush - which is what mountain lions typically do.
Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was fading, he decided to return the next day to recover the deer. But when he returned Wednesday morning, the carcass had been covered by grass and bush - which is what mountain lions typically do.
I was amused at how chief N.Y. Times critics Tony Scott and Manohla Dargis gave the task of reviewing Chris Smith's Collapse (which opens today in Manhattan) not to second-stringer Stephen Holden but third-stringer Jeanette Catsoulis. It's only the scariest and most riveting doc of the year -- a theoretical portrait of the world's end that will suck the air out of whatever room you happen to be sitting...
From Stop the Abortion Mandate Coalition : TODAY is the day to take a stand -- for LIFE. We are on the eve of the vote of the U.S. House of Representatives health care bill. This legislation is estimated to cost our nation over $1.2 TRILLION and still contains a massive abortion industry bailout in the form of government funded abortions through the "public" option. Planned Parenthood and...
Happy holidays everyone! Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey hits theatres today, and regardless of the fact that it still seems a little early for a Christmas movie, it's expected to do quite well. There are three other major releases it has to compete with, however, including Richard Kelly's The Box, The Men Who Stare at Goats starring George Clooney, and the alien abduction flick...
At the turns of decades and centuries, it’s fairly common for sky-is-falling prognostication to spike wildly. This angst often finds expression in popular entertainments, such as the appearance, as if on cue, of the clunky misfire Knowing and the upcoming sure-to-be tedious 2012. What these kinds of spectacles provide is something like diversionary exorcism—the world outside may seem bad,...
I had forgotten this so called research paper but an article in the Economic Times prompted me to seek answers from the "researchers" at the Univ of Brighton. These guys have a shallow paper based on heresy, misplaced / racist perceptions of the developing world and they pass judgement. Then they do not have the decency to respond to any objection to their "paper" ... is it a problem...
How you feel about Chris Smith's latest documentary will depend entirely on how you feel about Michael Ruppert, a reporter who spends 82 minutes seething over the world's preventable problems.
The current documentary landscape is chockfull of doom-laden scenarios of every stripe: If global warming ( An Inconvenient Truth ) doesn’t get you, then maybe genetically engineered Frankenfoods ( Food, Inc. ), will. Or contaminated water ( Flow ). Or crushing personal ( Maxed Out ) and national ( I.O.U.S.A. ) debt. But few apocalyptic visions are as comprehensive and frighteningly assured as...
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Chris Smith, the leading pro-life lawmaker in the House of Representatives, is criticizing a potential "compromise" that supporters say would remove abortion funding from the health care reform bill but would actually allow that to continue.
Somewhat surprisingly, the WSJ has a rather sympathetic article about and interview with Mike Ruppert on his new movie, "Collapse" - Sounding an Alarm on Oil . Michael Ruppert proudly claims that he predicted the global economic slump more than four years ago in his self-published "From the Wilderness," a monthly news publication and Web site. A narcotics investigator for the Los...
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