Movies

“Alphaville” totalitarian fears still relevant decades later

April 30, 2014 By Ed Rampell

Almost 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.

Labor says “NO” to outsourcing of “Draft Day’s” music

April 11, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."

March movies that came in like a lamb, went out like a lamb

April 10, 2014

I 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.

“The Unknown Known” grills Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq war snow job

April 1, 2014 By Ed Rampell

The 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.

Ayn Rand, U.S. government, and censoring of Hollywood dissent

March 6, 2014 By Chris George

In Dennis Broe's "Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood," there is an attempt to categorize the film noir movies of different time periods.