film reviews
California rolls in new film ‘East Side Sushi’
September 24, 2015Anthony Lucero's fine film uses the framework of food film to deftly explore class, work, ethnicity, and sexism.
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“Jimmy’s Hall”: Ken Loach’s Irish working class heroes
July 21, 2015"Jimmy's Hall" is about Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman deported as an illegal alien from Ireland, the land of his birth, without so much as a trial!
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More highlights of progressive cinema from Tribeca
June 23, 2015Including "(T)ERROR," "Thought Crimes," "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle (TASER)" and "Havana Motor Club."
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Third “Yes Men” film is great…and “Revolting”
June 11, 2015The third film about the prankster activists who call themselves The Yes Men, is being released this weekend across the country.
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Seventy years since the end of WWII: “A Generation”
March 12, 2015The struggle of Polish people after the invasion of Nazi Germany is portrayed well in this 1955 film.
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