Jameson Kowalczyk

Eric Schlosser began his career as a playwright, screenwriter, and fiction author before turning to journalism, a career choice that would lead to his...

Best known for his role of Fez (an acronym for ‘Foreign Exchange Student’) on “That 70’s Show,” Wilmer Valderrama takes on his first major mainstream dramatic effort in Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s best-selling journalistic investigation into the multi-faceted impact and implications of the fast food corporation on global society, economy, and culture. Adapted into a narrative screenplay by Linklater and Schlosser, the film follows three simultaneous plotlines that help examine fast food from a variety of perspectives. Valderrama is cast in the role of Raul, an illegal immigrant who crosses the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his girlfriend Sylvia (Catalina Sandino Moreno -- Maria Full of Grace), and finds himself among the disposable immigrant labor force manning a meat processing plant in Colorado. Valderrama’s storyline is easily the most effective (and disturbing) of the three, and he demonstrates he has serious dramatic acting ability.

Richard Linklater releases his second film of 2006 with Fast Food Nation, a film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book of the same title....

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, The Brothers Grimm) speaks in his native Australian accent for the first time in 10 years in Candy, the debut...

Fuck is a 90 minute long documentary that offers and in-depth examination one of the most popular and offensive words in the English language. It is directed by Steve Anderson, who made an ambitious debut at the 2003 American Film Institute Film Festival with his narrative feature, The Big Empty (starring John Favreau, Daryl Hannah, Joey Lauren Adams, and Kelsey Grammar), which earned him comparisons to the likes of David Lynch and The Cohen Bothers. Prior to his directorial debut, Anderson was a cameraman with a Peabody Award and thousands of hours of broadcast television to his credit.