film reviews
‘Freud on Cocaine’: The dramatized future of a delusion
September 14, 2023Although sometimes over the top, Howard Skora and his cast shed new light on one of humanity’s deepest thinkers by bringing Sigmund Freud, warts and all, back to life.
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‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’: Acclaimed Indigenous film screened at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater
September 13, 2023In the U.S. government’s long record of broken treaties, land theft, and genocide, the taking of the Black Hills ranks as perhaps as one of the most disgraceful episodes.
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‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.
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‘Walid’ tracks down child traffickers in new Malaysian martial arts film
August 16, 2023The first hour emphasizes the importance of education and thoughtfully dramatizes the problem of the commodification of children and their abductions in the Third World.
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Anarchism vs. Marxism: The politics of Boots Riley’s ‘I’m a Virgo’
August 10, 2023It’s a fight as old as Marxism itself.
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