Tag: Political
Reviews
Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
Reviews
Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
Reviews
Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
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DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...
First clip from South Park season 20 takes on Colin Kapernick’s national anthem protest
It’s hard to believe that South Park is about to start its 20th season. I still remember when it first debuted. I was ...
NYC: Metrograph has marathon OJ: Made in America screenings, director Ezra Edelman Q&A
O.J.: Made in America is the crowning achievement of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries. Director Ezra Edelman’s five-part, seven-and-a-half hour film is an ...
Billy West reads Donald Trump’s derp as Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan
Donald Trump is a repugnant, obnoxious, ignorant goon who embodies everything wrong with The United States today. The rudderless demagogue is like some ...
Jon Stewart returns, does a Daily Show takedown of Donald Trump on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show
Jon Stewart left a major void behind when he ended his run on The Daily Show last year. Don’t get me wrong–I love ...
Nerd rage over all-female Ghostbusters reinforces negative stereotypes about male geek culture
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot opened last week and came in second at the box office, earning $46 million. It wasn’t a bad showing ...
Features
Captain America: Civil War – #TeamIronMan v #TeamCap and Obama-era foreign intervention
Now that we’ve all seen Captain America: Civil War, it’s about time to open up the #TeamIronMan v #TeamCap debate. On the one ...