Thank You, Mr. Reitman! Gives Smoking Colbert-Style Wit

Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking, from his screenplay, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, may turn out to be a star-making vehicle for erstwhile character-type Aaron Eckhart, here in the unlikely role of Nick Naylor, a 90’s lobbyist for the presumably now discredited and besieged tobacco industry. Strange as it may seem, the Read More

Ellen’s Big Gay Show … Dylan’s Grammy Speech … Flight of Letterman Diehards … Mama Madonna

Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week

The most hauntingly chilling, strangely prophetic science-fiction picture ever made has the worst pulp title-which all the creative people hated, and which the studio imposed, along with the dreaded prologue and epilogue-Don Siegel’s 1956 masterpiece of understated terror, Invasion of the Body Snatchers [Saturday, Feb. 28, WNET, 13, 11:30 Read More