Video essay explores the propaganda methods and rhetoric of Triumph of the Will
You might recall a video essay from Folding Ideas about the crummy editing of Suicide Squad. It was an informative look at the ...
Tag: Political
Watch Melissa McCarthy savage Sean Spicer again on SNL
Melissa McCarthy returned to Saturday Night Live over the weekend to portray White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Like the previous Spicer sketch, ...
Watch Melissa McCarthy skewer White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on SNL
You probably heard about it already, but Melissa McCarthy made a surprise appearance on the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live. And ...
Watch the controversial 84 Lumber Super Bowl commercial in its entirety
Last night during the Super Bowl, 84 Lumber aired part of a commercial about an immigrant mother and daughter on a journey to ...
Mark Hamill reads Donald Trump’s thin-skinned tweet as The Joker, which totally fits
While Donald Trump was running for president, Billy West recorded a number of the candidate’s dumber statements in the voice of Futurama‘s Zap ...
Watch Ryan Scafuro’s Election Night, a short documentary about America’s long evening
Inauguration Day is this week. It’s also my birthday on Inauguration Day. If you’ve seen some of my previous film and TV-related posts ...
John Carpenter is fighting with neo-Nazis over the message of They Live
They Live is one of John Carpenter’s indisputable masterpieces. Part satire and part ass-kicker, the film is all about the horrors of capitalism, ...
Diego Luna shares a Star Wars fan’s Rogue One story about race, accents, and representation
One of the most notable aspects of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was its multi-racial cast. This resulted in a dumb attempt ...
#DumpStarWars: Racists and Trump supporters triggered by Rogue One, call for boycott
You may remember two laughably misguided calls to boycott movies for political reasons last year: one targeted Mad Max: Fury Road and the ...
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth sequel will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
It’s been 10 years since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s seminal climate change documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim. While there ...
Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
I can say this about Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Ang Lee and his cast have their hearts in the right place. Adapted ...
Reviews
DOC NYC Review: Weiner
Weiner is an appropriate film to review on Election Day, and not just because it’s one of the best political documentaries of the ...