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The Iron Lady With a Laugh Track

Rich Juzwiak · 04/10/12 02:50PM

The Iron Lady, the Margaret Thatcher biopic for which Dame Edna won an Oscar earlier this year, is out on DVD/Blu-ray/subway bootleg today. But more importantly, it is pure camp. Please accept this reel of highlights with an accompanying laugh track as evidence.

The Virtues of Being Bullied

Rich Juzwiak · 04/02/12 02:15PM

Lee Hirsch's much-discussed film, Bully, is a great document of this moment in anti-bullying discourse. It reiterates what the compassionate know and the apathetic need to hear: bullying is bad and kids are killing themselves in response.

Kirk Cameron: A Bigot in Pilgrim’s Clothing

Rich Juzwiak · 03/28/12 03:50PM

At the end of last night's public showing of Kirk Cameron's documentary Monumental at New York's Regal Union Square Stadium 14, after a technical error had cut off Cameron's simulcast that concluded the event but before everyone left the still-dark theater, a voice rang out responding to what we had just watched:

Rating the Carnage: The Hunger Games's Violence Solution

Rich Juzwiak · 03/23/12 11:24AM

"The real sport of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another," says protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the first book of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy. The real sport of The Hunger Games, Gary Ross's compulsively entertaining cinematic adaptation, is breezing by those murders without offending delicate sensibilities.