Activist & Political · Festivals & Awards
“For a brief week or two, adventurous filmgoers can capture elusive truths found in works of complexity, moral ambiguity, and seriousness of purpose, all uncensored.”
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
“He tries to trick you. I try to enlighten you. Which is the more noble pursuit?” The Illusionist was released in 2006 to generally good reviews (the consensus seemed to[…]
Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Historical & Epic · Writers & Critics
“Being Marxist in the Groucho rather than Karl sense would have required the Ten to not take themselves or their politics so seriously.”
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Essays
“The films analyzed here explore the (crude) question: what are the individual and social consequences of eating shit?”
Activist & Political · LGBT & Queer
“The transvestite’s camp humor is here used to stress the unsustainability of the military discourses on which the justification of IRA terrorism is based.”
Activist & Political · Documentaries
“To twist Gayatri Spivak’s famous phrase, it’s a case of (mostly) ‘white men saving cute dolphins from yellow men.'”
Activist & Political · Festivals & Awards
As a tonic to all the hoopla surrounding The Hurt Locker and its Oscar win as Best Picture, we’re reprinting BL writer Jay Rothermel’s provocative review of the film, originally[…]
Activist & Political · Reviews
“The result is satire that doesn’t breathe.”
Activist & Political · Crime · Historical & Epic · Reviews
How a movie exposé of “abuse of power” defends those in power and their institutions
Activist & Political · Drama · Reviews
“Where Cloverfield provocatively blurs the line between being ‘about’ 9/11 and being (mere) entertainment, Knowing lands squarely in the latter camp.”
Activist & Political · Reviews · War
“Chew popcorn to avoid grinding teeth, comrades.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“Only saviors can save polluted planets, yellow cab drivers are losers . . .”
Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
“I’m shitting bricks, thinking he’s onto me.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“It’s not a tomato, it’s the idea of a tomato.”
Activist & Political · Documentaries
“I jam because I am without ID.”
Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
“I think it’s really important for you, or anybody who wants to be a filmmaker, to really be honest with yourself.”
Activist & Political · Animation
“We were the Nazis.”
Activist & Political · African American · Reviews
“Wife, get a real life for yourself. Career woman, the career isn’t everything. Hussy, men still marry ladies. Lesbian, explore your ‘male’ issues … “
Activist & Political · Essays · Silents
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“Goodnight, you stupid idiots. Goodnight, you miserable slobs.”
