Film Review
You say you wanna a revolution? Well, you know – or readers of a certain age will know – that even beloved old reactionary Walt Disney was a passionate fan of revolutionaries, if they were of the right lily white breed. Exhibit A is the stirring 1950s Disney TV series ‘Johnny Tremain,’ chronicling a handsome…
Read Full Article...I’ve always loved the elusively intricate films of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni (e.g., L’Eclisse, Red Desert) and seen them countless times. In Antonioni’s words his films “are born in the same way that poetry is born for poets.” His films evolve, in his words, from “everything that we read, hear, think, and see.” And…
Read Full Article...It seems like an eternity has passed since the chants of “we shall overcome” to “I can’t breathe” and “hands up, don’t shoot.” In fact, a millennium seems to have gone by since that night in Grant Park on November 4th, 2008 when some Americans thought we were on the point of entering a post-racial…
Read Full Article...In his Academy Award winning performance as the corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987), Michael Douglas uttered his infamous credo that, “Greed is good.” However, a less widely remembered but an equally revealing Gekko comment was his statement that, “It’s all about the bucks, the rest is conversation.” Hollywood seems to have followed…
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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