film reviews
‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
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Radical 1942 anti-fascist docu-drama ‘Native Land’ to screen in L.A.
June 25, 2018This classic 1942 pro-union, anti-racist, anti-fascist docu-drama was the final film by the leftist collective Frontier Films and of Paul Robeson.
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Eco-messages abound in ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
June 22, 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s eco-theme raises it from being just a crowd pleasing special FX-laden spectacle to a more worthy movie meditation upon species going extinct.
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‘The Workers Cup’: New documentary tackles soccer and slavery
June 7, 2018There’s a bigger game at play here - that of class struggle - and we're part of it in some way, not mere bystanders in the crowd.
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‘Cargo’: Netflix’s Australian zombie film spotlights Aboriginal talent and struggle
June 1, 2018Some of the Aboriginal characters find out that the real fear shouldn’t be of the undead, but of the racist humans left behind.
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