The long summer hiatus for Real Time with Bill Maher is over tonight — as the show returns with Al Gore and Ralph Reed Jr. toplining the show. Former Vice President Gore will open as the top-of-the-show interview guest. He has recently been busy promoting An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up documentary to 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth. He appeared on CNN earlier this week in a televised town hall meeting, where he said Donald Trump’s decision to remove the United States from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change was regrettable. When asked by Anderson Cooper, he said: “I actually...read more...
- 8/4/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
The fourteenth season of the Real Time with Bill Maher TV series, premieres on HBO, Friday, January 15, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The 10:00pm Et airing is live. Already renewed through its 15th season, Real Time with Bill Maher should not be cancelled too soon.
Per HBO, Former Vice President Al Gore is the top-of-show interview guest. Actor John Krasinski is the mid-show interview guest. Roundtable guests are political activist Ralph Reed, political analyst Nicolle Wallace and academic Cornel West.
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Per HBO, Former Vice President Al Gore is the top-of-show interview guest. Actor John Krasinski is the mid-show interview guest. Roundtable guests are political activist Ralph Reed, political analyst Nicolle Wallace and academic Cornel West.
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- 1/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
When you come across a newsworthy item that strikes your creative fancy and feeds the instinct to turn it into some sort of screenplay is that you are not the only supplicant sipping from this particular muse's font. Jack Abramoff himself would fully appreciate this, both as an unsuccessful Hollywood screenwriter/producer and as a functionally-intellectual piece of human shit. If an idea is good, someone else is probably going to have it, and so you're gonna have to be the first to the finish line with the finished product, or else you're going to be considered derivative and lesser than. A Bug's Life trumped Antz, Dante's Peak edged out Volcano, Capote outcapoted Infamous, Armageddon aerosmithed Deep Impact, Tombstone made Wyatt Earp its huckleberry -- the streets of Hollywood are paved with the corpses of lesser flicks that were released within months of similar tales. Alex Gibney, who has been...
- 12/22/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Until he was convicted in 2008, Jack Abramoff was a wearer of many hats: Washington lobbyist supreme, bedfellow of right-wing creeps like Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed, bilker of Indian nations, sometime film producer, restaurateur, observant Jew. Within the past year, he also became the star subject of two movies: First the sharp, complex Alex Gibney documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and now the more straightforwardly titled Casino Jack, directed by the late George Hickenlooper and starring Kevin Spacey in the title role. If Abramoff fancies himself a charming scamp, he'll be a lot happier with how he's portrayed in the latter movie -- and that's the problem with it.
- 12/16/2010
- Movieline
Chicago – Following our rave review this week of the new documentary “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” and following our Hookup this week with 50 free advance-screening passes to the film in Chicago, we’ve secured even more!
We now have two “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” full-size posters signed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney as well as six DVDs to these additional Magnolia titles: “Man on Wire,” “Food, Inc.” and “Jesus Camp”.
“Casino Jack and the United States of Money” from Alex Gibney features Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd, Jack Abramoff, William Branner, Tom DeLay, Donn Dunlop, Kevin Henderson, Hal Kreitman, Kelly Brian Kuhn, Paolo Mugnaini, Bob Ney, Ralph Reed, Michael Scanlon and Neil Volz. The film opened in Chicago on May 14, 2010.
To win your free DVD or poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form.
We now have two “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” full-size posters signed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney as well as six DVDs to these additional Magnolia titles: “Man on Wire,” “Food, Inc.” and “Jesus Camp”.
“Casino Jack and the United States of Money” from Alex Gibney features Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd, Jack Abramoff, William Branner, Tom DeLay, Donn Dunlop, Kevin Henderson, Hal Kreitman, Kelly Brian Kuhn, Paolo Mugnaini, Bob Ney, Ralph Reed, Michael Scanlon and Neil Volz. The film opened in Chicago on May 14, 2010.
To win your free DVD or poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form.
- 5/15/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Chicago – There’s a memorable moment in “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” in which one of director Alex Gibney’s interview subjects compares an Enron press conference to the musical sequence in “Chicago,” where a slickly manipulative lawyer has all of the city’s reporters on marionette strings.
I couldn’t help being reminded of another catchy “Chicago” show tune while watching Gibney’s latest so-infuriating-it’s-entertaining documentary, “Casino Jack and the United States of Money.” It’s the song belted out by Matron Mama Morton, who boasts, “Ask any of the chickies in my pen/They’ll tell you I’m the biggest mother hen/I love ‘em all and all of them love me/Because the system works, the system called/Re-ci-pro-ci-ty.” I suggest that Gibney find a place for this number on his director’s cut. These lyrics succinctly describe the mentality of former megalobbyist Jack Abramoff,...
Chicago – There’s a memorable moment in “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” in which one of director Alex Gibney’s interview subjects compares an Enron press conference to the musical sequence in “Chicago,” where a slickly manipulative lawyer has all of the city’s reporters on marionette strings.
I couldn’t help being reminded of another catchy “Chicago” show tune while watching Gibney’s latest so-infuriating-it’s-entertaining documentary, “Casino Jack and the United States of Money.” It’s the song belted out by Matron Mama Morton, who boasts, “Ask any of the chickies in my pen/They’ll tell you I’m the biggest mother hen/I love ‘em all and all of them love me/Because the system works, the system called/Re-ci-pro-ci-ty.” I suggest that Gibney find a place for this number on his director’s cut. These lyrics succinctly describe the mentality of former megalobbyist Jack Abramoff,...
- 5/14/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In our latest documentary edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” from Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney!
The film features Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd, Jack Abramoff, William Branner, Tom DeLay, Donn Dunlop, Kevin Henderson, Hal Kreitman, Kelly Brian Kuhn, Paolo Mugnaini, Bob Ney, Ralph Reed, Michael Scanlon and Neil Volz. “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” opens in Chicago on May 14, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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The film features Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd, Jack Abramoff, William Branner, Tom DeLay, Donn Dunlop, Kevin Henderson, Hal Kreitman, Kelly Brian Kuhn, Paolo Mugnaini, Bob Ney, Ralph Reed, Michael Scanlon and Neil Volz. “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” opens in Chicago on May 14, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- 5/11/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
By Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine. This is my fourth interview with the ever-engaging Gibney.)
Over the past decade, and particularly during the last five years, Alex Gibney has become one of the most important non-fiction filmmakers in the world, in addition to being arguably the most prolific. His Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, released in 2005, dissects that highly complicated corporate scandal in a manner which is easy to follow for the layman, a challenging task which the mainstream news media never seemed to accomplish. (For proof of that, go ahead and ask the person next to you what happened at Enron.) His Taxi to the Dark Side, released in 2007, was one of the most effective of the slew of documentaries which have been made on the intersection between the War on Terror and torture of prisoners of war, largely because Gibney focused his...
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine. This is my fourth interview with the ever-engaging Gibney.)
Over the past decade, and particularly during the last five years, Alex Gibney has become one of the most important non-fiction filmmakers in the world, in addition to being arguably the most prolific. His Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, released in 2005, dissects that highly complicated corporate scandal in a manner which is easy to follow for the layman, a challenging task which the mainstream news media never seemed to accomplish. (For proof of that, go ahead and ask the person next to you what happened at Enron.) His Taxi to the Dark Side, released in 2007, was one of the most effective of the slew of documentaries which have been made on the intersection between the War on Terror and torture of prisoners of war, largely because Gibney focused his...
- 5/11/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Director: Alex Gibney Before Jack Abramoff became a highly influential and grossly corrupt Washington D.C. lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms, he was the esteemed Chairman of the College Republican National Committee (1981-1985); and while Chairman, Abramoff is credited for making the College Republicans more activist and more conservative than ever before. It is also worth noting that Grover Norquist served as Abramoff’s executive director and Ralph Reed was hired as an unpaid intern – the infamous Abramoff-Norquist-Reed triumvirate was thus formed. Other highlights on Abramoff’s resume: in 1985, he joined Citizens for America, a pro-Reagan group that helped build support for the Nicaraguan Contras; he also tried his hands at far-right cinema – writing and producing the anti-communist diatribe Red Scorpion (starring Dolph Lundgren) which was released in 1989. We all know something or other about Abramoff’s career as a lobbyist. Thanks to the “maverick” John McCain’s presidential campaign,...
- 5/7/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Let’s get this out of the way up front: Casino Jack and the United States of Money is an argument for campaign finance reform. In director Alex Gibney's documentary, we meet characters who subscribe to the free market approach; they believe those who can afford to spread the wealth around the United States capitol are entitled to the influence those funds can gain. The film tries to enrage us by showing how this is common practice, and how it was taken to an extreme during the late '90s and '00s. However, Casino Jack doesn’t try to paint one man or group as the problem, but shows it’s the whole campaign finance system that‘s flawed.
As was the case in Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, his latest shines a light on intelligent men who made fortunes through unsavory practices and fell from grace.
As was the case in Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, his latest shines a light on intelligent men who made fortunes through unsavory practices and fell from grace.
- 5/6/2010
- CinemaSpy
The director Alex Gibney now sets the gold standard for documentary muckraking. His movies, like Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), are electrifying investigations that probe deep beneath the surface of contemporary events; after you've seen one, you feel you know something essential about what's happened in America that you didn't grasp before. When Gibney got up at Sundance to introduce his powerful new movie, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, he noted that the recent Supreme Court decision knocking down any and all restrictions on campaign finance had made the film "rivetingly relevant.
- 1/24/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
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