Let's have a little fun- let's try to review Sicko and leave Michael Moore out of it. Sure, cutting him out of the review would leave a gaping, man-sized hole, but why not? Sicko will make anyone who hasn't gotten sick feel very, very lucky. The movie follows several people who actually had insurance, but their insurance providers tried to weasel out of paying for their care. Several individuals suffer from cancer, and their insurance......

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place. SFist Tourist......

Back in 1999, Bostonist grabbed the VHS from the local video store and popped in Chris Rock’s “Bigger and Blacker.” While entertaining, there was one joke in particular that caught our attention, and it resurfaced on our DVD player years later when Michael Moore made use of it in Bowling for Columbine:You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets, that's......

"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of......

Bostonist was happy to read today about the homage to the late, great Tip O’Neill given in the form of naming rights to the I-93 tunnel. After Romney proposed naming the tunnel system running through the city "Liberty Tunnel" to honor the revolutionary spirit of Boston and to confront the terrorist attacks we’re happy to have had a win for the Democrats. The "sneaky" legislation put into the federal highway funding bill this month is......

In case you blocked out the hoopla known as the Oscars, the 77th Academy Awards aired last night for a short three hours and two minutes long. Held at L.A.'s Kodak Theater, the awards show went off without a hitch or much sparkle, creating a predictable show with few surprises. Chris Rock, who was being built up to perform some of his outrageous stand-up, was pretty calm, but did start the show by telling his......