film reviews

Voter suppression documentary ‘Rigged’ screens at Congressional Black Caucus

September 16, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Millions of people of color, students, women, the old, and workers were turned away from the polls on one technicality or another, or just plain intimidated into not voting, in 2016.

‘Hustlers’: How strippers became unexpected heroes of the 2008 Wall Street crash

September 13, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

The film’s deeply political themes highlight the multitude of ways in which the fallout of Wall Street’s greed affected everyone—including sex workers.

Elections, coups and tax evaders: Venice Film Festival wrap-up

September 10, 2019 By Dennis Broe

Outside, police at the Venice Film Festival massed for a climate march that saw demonstrators swarm around the red carpet demanding action on climate devastation globally.

‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ is now a quietly powerful Indigenous feature film

September 9, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film has the aura of authenticity indelibly woven into its fiber.

The good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019

September 4, 2019 By Dennis Broe

The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.