From Powell's Review, a review of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Friends in the Golden Age of Japanese Science Fiction Film by August Ragone. A review of Conversations With Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking by Eric Lax; and Mere Anarchy and The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose by Woody Allen. I love the smell of celluloid in the morning: Why are all the Iraq movies really movies about making movies? Let the Viewer Decide: Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore. A look at what's on the line in the writers' strike. A look at why you should care about the writer's strike. An interview with Patric Verrone, president of the West Coast branch of the Screen Actors Guild and SAG President Alan Rosenberg. As the reality of the writer's strike sets in, desperate networks will be forced to fill their schedules with even more reality programming: Radar can reveal some of the new shows that might be coming to your set soon — it's not pretty. The Daily Show Archive: Why you may never watch Jon Stewart live again. Sweeping the clouds away: Children’s TV has changed so much that a preschool classic on DVD now carries a warning.
