Dennis Broe
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Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
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Glazergate: The director’s challenge and the Zionist riposte
April 9, 2024He had the audacity to state that his film is not just about the past but also about the present.
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The imperialist problem with ‘3 Body Problem’
April 3, 2024Netflix joins the cultural Cold War against China.
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Alternative media vs. the corporate press: An illustrative case study in 1950s L.A.
March 29, 2024The battle between the people’s press and capitalist mouthpieces has been raging for decades.
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The roots of the Los Angeles housing crisis
March 20, 2024Millions of government dollars that could have built public housing were refused. Instead, the city’s rulers chose suburbs and highways.
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‘The Way’: A BBC series that’s way off base
March 13, 2024The Way blends a loosely constructed family fiction around the Welsh steel and former mining town of Port Talbot with documentary footage of the 1984 miners’ strike and a mythical other-worldly aspect.
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The cowardly ‘invincibility’ of the Israeli Defense Forces
February 27, 2024The IDF: Pretty good at killing women, children, old men, doctors, surrendering prisoners, and their own hostages. Not so great at actual armed combat.
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Alec Baldwin’s magic bullet: The rush to ‘Rust’
February 5, 2024Baldwin as producer was at least partly responsible for a set that, because of skimping on a sparse budget and rushing into production, was a maze of tensions, a tempest ready to burst.
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