Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe is a television, film, and culture critic. His criticism appears in Morning Star, People’s World; Culture Matters, Crime Fiction Lover, and is on the Pacifica Network in the U.S., and on Breaking Glass on Art District Radio in Paris. His books include Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and his novel Left of Eden about the Hollywood Blacklist. Broe taught in the Master’s Program in Film and Television Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe

Culture

Comcast and NBC Universal’s Peacock: A strange bird
July 31, 2020 By Dennis Broe
These “hyperconglomerates,” media giants combining telecommunications, satellite systems, and digital delivery and transmissions, are often reactionary in nature.
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Culture

They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’
July 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe
For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.
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Culture

Perry Mason, then and now
July 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Matthew Rhys from The Americans is pitch perfect in the role of the talented but befuddled and mixed-up Mason.
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Culture

‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Culture

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.
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Culture

Serial TV and the global drug pandemic
June 24, 2020 By Dennis Broe
This is a very mixed series by an extraordinary filmmaker who has brought both his creative talents and his political baggage to television.
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World

Statues also die as racist memorials come down in Europe
June 15, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The first week of European and particularly French and Francophone protests in the wake of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement concerned parallel police actions against French minorities.
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Culture

Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020 By Dennis Broe
One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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