Culture
‘Aquaman’: The life aquatic with Hawaiian Polynesian Power superhero Jason Momoa
January 3, 2019If noisy action, violence, CGI and other eye-popping special effects in a superhero movie is your thing, then you will love the mind-boggling Aquaman.
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Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’: Was he vice president or viceroy?
January 2, 2019Writer/director Adam McKay pursues a path of disrupting a straightforward docudrama narrative with highly filmic forays into satire, speculation, metaphor and more.
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‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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Hoagancamp’s heroes: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
December 21, 2018Although it’s flawed, I commend Zemeckis, his cast and crew for not only taking on such daunting subject matter, but for doing so in such an original way.
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‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’ closes Marx @ 200 movie series in L.A.
December 21, 2018The 1964 film uses a “you are there” documentary style to depict a “liberation theology” Jesus of Nazareth (Enrique Irazoqui).
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