Monday: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As part of their "31 Days of Oscar," Turner Classic Movies is pulling out all of your dusty old favorites this month. So here's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of those movies where everything clicks into place like a tumbler in a lock. Wi...

Collections ~ It's Tuesday so there are new box sets available highlighting everything from tired hockey masked killers (you know who) to highly respected thespians (Peter Sellers and Alec Guiness) but the big ... make that B-I-G... deal for The Film Experience is the "Natalie Wood Collection" which...

Last year’s Sundance Festival saw the complimentary hand-out of more than 50,000 single-serve bottles of water. That waste is just a drop in the bucket of the 38 billion plastic water bottles thrown away each year by Americans. Festival organizers, however, wanted to reduce this impact and for...

With a little more than 48 hours before our frostbitten arrival on the scene, we think it bears noting: Defamer is going to the Sundance Film Festival! Sadly, some news isn't waiting for us: · While the festival itself is as cutthroat as it's ever been — this year admitting only 32 Amer...

Remember those “Drill, baby, drill!” chants at the Republican convention? I hate to bring back such vile memories, but it appears that President Bush was listening. Late on November 4th, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 auction of more than 360,000 acres of oil and ...

Director Sydney Pollack died in Los Angeles Monday after a long bout with cancer. He was 73. Pollack's cancer was inoperable because it riddled his entire body and the original site was never found. Trained as an actor, Pollack enjoyed an unusually long and prolific career as a producer and director...

Rainbow Media, that gay-sounding TV group actually owned by the macho Dolan family, is adding the Sundance Channel to its portfolio. One wouldn't have thought there was much money in broadcasting obscure documentaries and independent movies. But Sundance Channel reaches 30 million homes and Rainbow,...

How much do I love Meryl Streep? Let me count the ways. She puts these other so-called "actresses" to shame. Ho can act! Yeah, I'm queer but that has nothing to do with it! Drag queens don't do Meryl because they can't! She's too perfect! And she's a chameleon! A chameleon of emotions and persona! M...

Not too many commentators seem to have noticed that George Soros is slowly but surely becoming the mainstream media that is the focus of the analysis we do at NewsBusters. The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message t...

Listeners of the podcast know that we’ve been giving a lot of love to Revaz these days. The last G5 podcast was basically an ode to our tall lanky friend who, like so many others, recently made the move back from Brooklyn to the Bay. Due to time constraints and the effects of beer, I was the o...