On July 16, 1945, 35 miles east of the dusty town of Socorro in Southeast New Mexico, the first atomic weapon was tested. The weapon would, within the month, be credited with ending the Second World War.

I am very proud of what I did at Halliburton. And the people of Halliburton are very proud of what they've done. --Dick Cheney 2000. Billions in no-bid contracts and massive corruption – of course they're proud.

Given that the US appears to have abandoned any notion of truth and justice in its pursuit of the American way, it appears that Hollywood has decided to follow its political precedent and provide another court jester.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a dauntless, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.

I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes.

Terrorism or an act of nature? What has suddenly struck New York causing thousands of deaths and panic across the Northeast? People become disoriented, and construction workers and early morning pedestrians commit suicide en masse.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a daunt, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.

The not so jolly green giant is back to battering the US military machine, which is still seeking to discover the secret that they believe will help them to produce an army of such mutant monstrosities.

It is 1957 and the likable, fedora-hatted, rogue archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is embroiled in a vicious kidnapping designed to make him help retrieve a mysterious artifact from an abandoned US intelligence storage in the Nevada Desert.

Marvel comics have a history of conscripting the help of superheroes during a war. They called up Captain America in 1941 to fight the nazis and Iron Man in 1963 to help them against the communists.

Last night, I watched the newly-released DVD, There Will Be Blood. It was a bad experience that reaffirmed my disgust with most of mainstream Hollywood’s film industry, and left me understanding more fully than ever why most of my reviews are of independent films.

I was disappointed that Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for "There Will Be Blood," not because he's not a great actor (he is), but because the movie was such a betrayal of the book on which it was based.

When the head of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Neil Portnoy, applauded the Writers’ Union for its successful labor contract negotiations during the February 10th showing of the 50th Grammy Awards, millions of viewers saw a side of the industry rarely put forward.

Once upon a time there was a "guy" and a "girl." The unnamed boyishly handsome Guy (Glen Hansard) meets the beautiful Girl (Marketa Irglova) while playing for coins on the streets of Dublin.

Gradually, mainstream films are returning to more adult themes, some timeless, others topical. The year also graced moviegoers with a refreshing number of films by women directors such as Tamara Jenkins, Sarah Polley and Laurie Collyer.

I was willing to be wowed by Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel Oil! which has been hailed as a masterpiece by the US media.

Based upon Philip Pullman's The Northern Lights, this first work in the His Dark Materials trilogy is supposed to be the atheistic antidote to all those Christian fantasy films inspired by the likes of Tolkein and CS Lewis.

To paraphrase the indefatigable Homer as he shouts at the audience of The Simpsons Movie, "you're all fools if you've paid to watch what you can get for nothing on TV."

This is a toe-tapping, colorful and delightfully uplifting musical extravaganza which holds its own to the 1988 cult classic written and directed by John Waters.

Late in this film, miniature wizard Harry Potter enthuses that his self-appointed army has "something to fight for," implying that his nemesis The Dark Lord causes murderous mayhem on a malevolent whim.