film
‘Good Hair’: About us but not for us
November 2, 2009Documentary films are often powerful in doing what typical mainstream media outfits can't: accidentally reveal truths.
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‘This Is It’ Michael Jackson’s final performance
November 2, 2009My family had planned a movie day and it was a big debate between me, my husband and three sons about which movie we would see.
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More thoughts about Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’
October 29, 2009Moore is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Tom Paine.
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Powerful films progressives will want to see
October 28, 2009Stunning, engrossing, loaded with political awareness, new films deal with compelling topics, from Daniel Ellsberg to Darwin, from Nanking to Haiti, from New York garment workers to the London subway bombings.
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‘District 9’ — profoundly racist
October 23, 2009What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."
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