Activist & Political · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
“Heckuva Job, Tony!” Racism and Hegemony Rage in Iron Man
Kill a few Arabs and enjoy yourcheeseburger
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Activist & Political · African American · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
Hillbilly Hustle: The Thin Line Between Hillybilly Sexploitation and Blaxploitation in Trash Cinema
“How you gonna keep um’ down on the farm after they seen all this?”
Activist & Political · Reviews
The Nixon of Our Dreams? On Robert Altman’s Secret Honor
We loved him, we loved him not Of all the Presidents the United States has had to endure over the last couple of centuries, this country’s relationship with Richard Nixon[…]
Activist & Political · Festivals & Awards · Reviews
Capturing Chaos: On the 2005 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
These docs and features show a world of upheaval – and, occasionally, hope The films portray images and tell stories that most of us would rather not see or hear.[…]
Activist & Political · Essays · Reviews
Distribute This! Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967, Great Britain)
Watkins’ savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant After retailing Scotland’s Jacobite rebellion of 1746 to almost universal acclaim in Culloden (1964) and, in less than a year, establishing an[…]
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries · Reviews
Rebel Girls: Six Documentaries by Kim Longinotto
On Dream Girls, The Day I Will Never Forget, Divorce Iranian Style, Shinjuku Boys, Gaea Girls, and Runaway The combination of reality TV and George W. Bush’s ascendancy (one wants[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground
Crossing the Bridge: Jenni Olson’s The Joy of Life (2005)
Navigating a haunted, and haunting, world In 1994, film historian and programmer Jenni Olson’s friend Mark Finch, a critic who was co-director with Olson of the San Francisco International Lesbian[…]
Activist & Political · Animation
Only in America: On Team America: World Police
Trey Parker and Matt Stone fight Hollywood ignorance with some ignorance of their own
Distribute This! Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles (1961)
This uncategorizable classic captures life in L.A.’s seamy underbelly
Activist & Political · Westerns
High Noon: Liberal Classic? Conservative Screed?
Or something else…
Activist & Political · Crime · Horror
Training Day (for the Pacification of Iraq): Baghdad in the Ghetto
“You know what I learned today? I’m not like you.”
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Do the Wrong Thing: Confronting The Corporation
Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
Activist & Political · Essays · Historical & Epic
Want Fact with That? Disney’s Hidalgo and the Commodification of Myth
Enjoy your myths that’s what they’re there for
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me
Spurlock’s no Sherlock
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
Activist & Political · African American · Essays
Dancing Across Borders: Blackness That Isn’t (African) American
Can there be co-cultures instead of subcultures?
Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Essays
The Trouble with the Governator: Being Arnold
The ascension of Arnold salvation, apocalypse, or trigger for a resurgent left?
Activist & Political · Directors
Film as a Catalyst for Social Change: Ousmane Sembene’s Borom Sarret
This 1963 short film, considered the first African-made African film, remains relevant 40 years later
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