Michael Berkowitz

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz

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  Kirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled

  February 6, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

  “I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”

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  HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?

  January 7, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

  Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.

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  ‘Dark Waters’: DuPont chemical’s toxic profits

  December 4, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz
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  New PBS film ‘McCarthy’: Lessons unlearned

  November 19, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  Writer-director-producer Grimberg gives us a fine, understated look at what a genial, right-minded, homegrown elected-official terrorism looks like.

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  ‘Waking in Havana’: Good works on the AIDS front in Cuba

  November 12, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  Elena Schwolsky’s new book Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba is a well-written, moving account of her work as a nurse in Cuba’s HIV/AIDS prevention program.

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  ‘The Laundromat’: Getting the dirt out

  October 29, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  The Laundromat tells us and shows us that reform of America’s broken finance system cannot wait.

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  ‘Lehman Trilogy’ explores the demise of a financial empire: Buyers beware!

  August 29, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  National Theatre’s The Lehman Trilogy, showing in theaters around the world, is a brilliant, tragic cautionary tale—that needs to come with a warning label!

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  ‘Fight On’: Anti-socialist hysteria motivates conservative propaganda flick

  March 12, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  Donald Trump has a movie he’d like you to see.

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