Movies
Labor says “NO” to outsourcing of “Draft Day’s” music
April 11, 2014"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."
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March movies that came in like a lamb, went out like a lamb
April 10, 2014I was eager to see "The Grand Budapest Hotel" because its creator has done such fine whimsical works before. Both of them raised whimsy to an art form, and so does this latest work.
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“The Unknown Known” grills Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq war snow job
April 1, 2014The film focuses on Rumsfeld's return to that post of defense secretary during George W. Bush's disastrous presidency at the behest of his longtime crony, Dick Cheney.
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Ayn Rand, U.S. government, and censoring of Hollywood dissent
March 6, 2014In Dennis Broe's "Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood," there is an attempt to categorize the film noir movies of different time periods.
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Oscar and Progies: view of movies from left side of the aisle
February 25, 2014Join People's World film critic Bill Meyer tonight via Google+ for a conversation on movies and social change.
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