Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Plains, trains and automobiles: ‘Snowpiercer’ vs. ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
June 28, 2022How can we contrast Snowpiercer’s people’s transport vs. Lincoln Lawyer’s luxuriating while the planet burns?
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Culture
Meet Juan Guaidó: Capra’s Depression-era comedy replayed as imperial farce
June 23, 2022The scenario in Frank Capra's 1941 classic 'Meet John Doe' started replaying a few years ago as the U.S. anointed from nowhere and utterly out of the blue their Latin American John Doe, Juan Guaidó.
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Culture
‘Better Call Saul’: The fading middle class in a ‘Breaking Bad’ universe
June 21, 2022The Breaking Bad universe has established a template for languishing, but never challenging, diminishing expectations as the American “universe” itself shrinks globally.
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World
French legislative vote: With united left can the right be defeated?
June 10, 2022Hopes are high for an end to giveaways to the wealthy and more misery for the poor.
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Culture
The thick blue line: Killer cops in new Baltimore and Paris series
May 25, 2022There may be Black and White behind the Blue Line, but that line, as the series illustrates in almost every scene, is used to regulate and destroy all attempts at community.
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World
French presidential candidates Le Pen and Macron: Worlds apart or feuding neighbors?
April 19, 2022Much is made about the distinction between the two, but unfortunately what is also apparent is that the distance is shrinking as the neoliberal Macron shifts further to the right.
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Culture
Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington
April 18, 2022"I knew Jimmy Stewart, and you, sir, are no Jimmy Stewart."
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Culture
Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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