There’s something about the title “The Cove” that makes me think of a teen horror movie. But “The Cove” is a horror movie of an entirely different kind – a documentary about routine dolphin slaughters in Taiji, a small coastal town in Japan, and the degree of cover up and misinformation that keeps the practice from becoming common knowledge. This is a tough movie to watch, with brutal and graphic footage, but that’s also a large part of why the film exists – to capture on video what the local industry has tried to keep hidden.This is a message movie, made to get the word out. It’s the kind of movie that demands that a reviewer actually divulge the content. This is unusual for me and if yo

I was shocked to hear the reason Jeremy Piven will no longer be in the Broadway play, Speed-The-Plow: mercury poisoning. According to People magazine, he has been experiencing extreme fatigue lately and his doctor attributes this to high levels of mercury in his system caused by his regular diet of tuna and sushi. I don't know about you but this makes me think twice about choosing a sushi restaurant for dinner when going out with friends. There was an article written in The New York Times in January of this year that tested the levels of mercury in various sushi restaurants in Manhattan. The New York Times tested tuna from 20 sushi restaurants. The tests revealed that some restaurants'