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Funny how support for universal healthcare or stronger labor rights gets labeled radical, but admiration for billionaires and endless military spending is treated as perfectly normal politics. Smearing people w/ decades-old Cold War rhetoric says more about CNN than it does her.
Believe the hype when it comes to Obsession. Simultaneously terrifying, hilarious, and poignant.
We’re taught to see each other as competitors: worker against worker, nation against nation, neighbor against neighbor. But our survival has always depended on solidarity
Mixed review for The Wizard of the Kremlin. Jude Law is good as Putin, forgoing caricature in favor of controlled quiet menace. The portrayal of crash capitalism after the Soviet fall is also fascinating. However, it has very little impact, and the main character, played by Dano, is boring.
I recommend Hokum by a talented, up-and-coming writer-director named Damian McCarthy. Atmospheric with perfectly timed jump scares.
Jacob Riis's photographs didn't just document poverty in Gilded Age New York. They exposed how an economic system could pack thousands of people into overcrowded tenements while wealth accumulated uptown. His camera turned suffering into evidence.
Zodiac is a meticulous and haunting thriller that forgoes cheap scares in favor of themes like obsession, uncertainty, psychological darkness, and time slipping away.
My four favorite war movies are Platoon, Come and See, The Steel Helmet, and The Thin Red Line.
Saving Private Ryan took home most of the accolades in 1998, but Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line is the superior film about war. Malick made a haunting meditation on humanity itself.