films
“Green Book” only scratches surface about race—and that’s ok
November 16, 2018An exposé of systemic racism and oppression this film is not. Then again, it doesn’t appear that it was trying to be.
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Mikhail Gorbachev and Steve Bannon documentaries at Toronto film festival
November 13, 2018Two controversial political figures get the kid glove treatment in new documentaries.
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‘Detroit 48202’: What a mail carrier sees and learns in the heart of a city
November 9, 2018Detroit 48202 is a searing film that weaves the racial history of the city with the economic truths of capitalism.
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‘Boy Erased’ exposes so-called gay conversion therapy
November 8, 2018A whole industry has grown up around the fraudulent premise that homosexual orientation can simply be “prayed away.”
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‘They Live’: The horror classic that exposed the monster called capitalism
November 5, 2018It seems fitting to revisit and celebrate a film that is still just as relevant today as it was back on Election Day 1988 as the Reagan era was drawing to a close.
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