Michael Jackson didn’t arrive on time for his trial this morning and an angry Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville issued an arrest warrant and said he would also revoke Jackson’s $3 million bail unless he appeared in court within one hour after the 8:30 a.m. scheduled start time. Time …

There are those who pronounce every year that the Oscars are dead or dying, a dinosauric remnant of an earlier age when men were men and movies mattered. In addition, they think the show itself too long, too boring, too traditional, not traditional enough, too reverent, too flip, too uninclusive, …

We mentioned last week that enterprising locals are making bucks on the Michael Jackson trial renting out parking spaces and vantage points, and restaurants and stores are doing record business as well. Specialists are also raking in the dough. Sketch artist Bill Robles and two colleagues are providing the only …

This is a freaky little blast of ephemera from iFilm (view here). In 1964, Jim Morrison appeared an earnest, clean-cut and perplexed prospective Florida State University student turned down for admission because there just wasn’t enough money to go around, in an odd bit of black-and-white propaganda produced by the …

Note this engrossing and perspective-jarring examination of the film medium by playwright S.N. Behrman in the New Republic … from 1917. He examines the cinematic treatment given the play The Easiest Way: In the play–a study of a pretty, nondescript, weak woman–we have the story of Laura Murdock, a third-rate …

Yesterday the 14 year-old younger brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser took the stand and made some shocking accusations: “I saw directly onto the bed,” the boy testified about the first of the two 2003 incidents. “I saw my brother was outside the covers. I saw Michael’s left hand in my …

Since I signed up to be on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press list leading up to the Oscars, I have been subjected to a numbing array of press releases on such matters of import as the placement of outhouses during pre-awards red carpet-area construction. But this …

The winds of democracy are blowing in the Middle East, with the “people power” uprising in Lebanon against the Syrian occupation being just the most startling and emblematic of stirrings all across the region. This is a very exciting and heartening series of events well worth following closely – and …

Onward neocon soldiers. We have been noting the impossible-not-to-note rise in President Bush’s stock of late — domestically and even more dramatically in the international arena — due to felicitous democratic movement in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar and even Saudi Arabia, as well as unprecedented unanimity in …

Blogcritics.org is proud to host this week’s nomadic Carnival of the Capitalists, a smorgasbord of penetrating and perceptive peeks into the machinations of economic materialism and its ramifications by so inclined bloggers from around the world and down your street. My eyes were opened – yours will be as well. …