'Sleep Dealer' Injects Sci-Fi Into Immigration Debate
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Alex Rivera's eye-opening film delivers a message at Sundance: As technology marches forward, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots will widen into an ugly abyss.
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A nifty moon colony sounds so very exotic. But the dreamy mission comes at a terrible price: slashing funding for Earth science. In Beyond the Beyond.
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For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals.
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"The Paranoia Switch" (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 202 pages. $26), by Martha Stout: Opponents of the Bush administration have long accused the government of trafficking in fear &#151; using terror alerts, for example, to distract the public and prevent citizens from questioning authority.
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Looking at Mexico's opportunities can mean making profits while others nap.
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LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.
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"Appleseed," a new animated science-fiction spectacle from Japan, has a plot that frolics in the no-man's land between fiendish complexity and utter incomprehensibility.
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Some broad facts about the role of illegal immigrants in the economy seem to be emerging, and they may upset some preconceived notions.
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In the sci-film film, Hayden Christensen teleports through time, space, and enormous plot holes.
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RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. -- Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp in a federal detention system rapidly gearing up to keep pace with Washington's increasing demand for stronger enforcement of immigration laws.
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A doormat meant to frighten unwanted visitors â and to appeal to video game aficionados â features flashing images of the green aliens from Space Invaders.
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Dawn M. Lurie knows how to wake up her audiences when she briefs personnel managers on immigration law: She points out that in some cases executives could face criminal penalties for hiring immigrants without the right visas.
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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Daniel McGinnâs âHouse Lust: Americaâs Obsession With Our Homes,â raises several provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of Americaâs culture.
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Insomnia is sometimes described unscientifically as epidemic, and it even seems chic these days. The author visited the worst city for a night's rest, and the best.
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The latest and lamest version of Don Siegelâs 1956 pulp classic âInvasion of the Body Snatchersâ might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics werenât so abhorrent.
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A bevy of bold-faced celebrities is backing a bill to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. More than 30 actors, writers and musicians &#151; including Diane Keaton, Carlos Santana and "Million Dollar Baby" writer Paul Haggis &#151; took out an ad Monday in the trade paper Variety urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to approve the bill, claiming it would make roads safer and that driving is a civil right.