Forget the Oscars,new movies and the Emmys – it's for a bunch of people that don't work for a living, but an award worth following is the Nobel Prizes, and this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature is Herta Müller. Frau Müller was born to German parents in Romania, and studied Romanian Literature and German Studies at university. She lived through the post World War 2 period, in which a communist regime ruled Romania, and was noted for refusing to cooperate with the state secret police. She… Continue

Michael Moore has filmed a movie about a love affair with more than McDonalds – he's opened a new film called Capitalism: A Love Story. Granted – the film isn't that heavy on the science of economics, but that would involve that "education" and "learning," which Michael Moore films are typically light on. That aside, the movie reviews for Capitalism: A Love Story have been positive leaning, but they are critical that the film lacks a lot of substance and seems to be sort of aimless rants about t… Continue