michael moore
By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool
| 10:15AM 11/02/2011
Filmmaker and political gadfly Michael Moore has joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, and his tirades against corporate greed, bailouts for bankers, unemployment are all mostly accurate and on point -- but when he says "the 99%" should stay out of the markets, he's giving terrible financial advice.
| 9:15AM 9/14/2011
Nobody knows what the next 30 years will look like, but Canadian filmmaker Jim Munroe offers some disturbingly possible speculations in his upcoming mockumentary, Ghosts With Shit Jobs. Will 2040 be a time when over-educated Americans scurry after the few jobs that Chinese and Indian workers refuse to do?
| 3:00PM 9/23/2009
America is Rome, and it's toppling. That's the opening salvo from Michael Moore in his blistering new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, which opens in New York and Los Angeles today and across the country Oct. 2. That's a dispiriting message that everyone can agree with, be they affiliated...
| 7:00PM 8/31/2009
Last week, I posted the trailer for Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's upcoming documentary about the Wall Street bailouts.
Now comes the trailer for Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's American Casino, which promises to be a more thoughtful, nuanced look at how we got into this mess. (You can...
| 10:00AM 8/23/2009
Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, will hit theaters on October 2nd. The trailer is up on YouTube and let me tell you, it looks pretty entertaining. It's also perfectly timed to capitalize on the well-earned bailout angst that is sweeping across America.
Judging from a...
| 11:30AM 6/02/2009
In a column on TheDailyBeast offering his suggestions for saving the U.S. auto industry, filmmaker Michael Moore makes a pretty big claim: "Twenty years ago when I made Roger & Me, I tried to warn people about what was ahead for General Motors (GMGMQ). Had the power structure and the...
| 4:30PM 9/11/2008
If Lori Hall Steele could get off her ventilator long enough, she would have a heck of a story to write.It's a tale involving a brutal disease, a questionable health insurance policy, a mortgage company going about its devastatingly matter-of-fact business and of several friends who are determined...