Bob McCarty Writes

While driving along Interstate 70 in St. Louis yesterday, I noticed a tractor-trailer rig loaded with large, old vehicles (i.e., Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles) from the late ’70s and early ’80s. I became convinced that those vehicles had been traded in by people seeking to take advantage of the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program.

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I thought about taking my boys to see Iron Man Saturday, but decided against it. Reading this this review at Kids-in-Mind.com left me with a bad taste in my mouth about Hollywood. This morning, however, my interest in big-screen entertainment was renewed after I watched the trailer below about a film set for [...]

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The high-definition trailer for the much-talked-about animated Star Wars movie, Clone Wars, is out.

At first skeptical that the film’s release would serve only to line the already-deep pockets of George Lucas and other creative forces behind the Star Wars marketing empire, I am now less skeptical after watching the trailer.
In any case, I will not [...]

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In a post Dec. 5, 2007, I expressed skepticism about fast-food filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s claim that he had found Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Three months later, I wrote a post about the release of a trailer for Spurlock’s documentary, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Since then however, I’ve heard very [...]

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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has released a new trailer for his upcoming documentary, “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?”

News of its release comes nearly three months after I published a post expressing my deep skepticism about the claims made by the man behind the 2006 fast-food documentary, Fast-Food Nation. Others, including Debbie Schlussel, [...]

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