Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe is a television, film, and culture critic. His criticism appears in Morning Star, People’s World; Culture Matters, Crime Fiction Lover, and is on the Pacifica Network in the U.S., and on Breaking Glass on Art District Radio in Paris. His books include Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and his novel Left of Eden about the Hollywood Blacklist. Broe taught in the Master’s Program in Film and Television Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe

Culture

‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Culture

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.
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Culture

Serial TV and the global drug pandemic
June 24, 2020 By Dennis Broe
This is a very mixed series by an extraordinary filmmaker who has brought both his creative talents and his political baggage to television.
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World

Statues also die as racist memorials come down in Europe
June 15, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The first week of European and particularly French and Francophone protests in the wake of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement concerned parallel police actions against French minorities.
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Culture

Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020 By Dennis Broe
One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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Culture

Money for nothing and gold for free on Netflix and Spanish TV
May 27, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Netflix has bet heavily on Spanish film and television, most likely after the European and global success of Money Heist, having set up their European headquarters in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
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Culture

Quibbling with Quibi: Considerations on the new platform of ‘quick bite’ entertainment
May 19, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Quibi, which stands for Quick Bites—bursts of entertainment, none more than 10 minutes and most less, designed for mobile phone use on the go—launched in the U.S. in early April in the midst of the quarantine.
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Culture

‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power
May 12, 2020 By Dennis Broe
It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.
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