film reviews
“Trust Me”: Nice agents finish last?
June 26, 2014Clark Gregg is one of those actors whose name audiences may not know but whose face they will recognize. Especially for his recurring role as Marvel's Agent Phil Coulson.
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Entrapment, food wars, and capitalism in three films
May 15, 2014A film that debuted at the recent Tribeca Film Festival offers compelling evidence that our government has gone too far in "protecting" its citizens.
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“Belle”: young love in shadow of the slave trade
May 14, 2014This historical drama takes up Belle's first encounters with young love, the stratified class system of the times, and disgusting forms of chauvinism.
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“The Galapagos Affair, Satan Came to Eden” film review
April 30, 2014The atavistic impulse to "get away from it all" and "return to nature" has been a literary theme since Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson cast away on desert islands.
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“Alphaville” totalitarian fears still relevant decades later
April 30, 2014Almost 50 years later, the prescient Godard's sci fi classic takes on a whole new dimension as a parable of the NSA national security surveillance state.
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