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Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)

Tue, Oct 23, 2018
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In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.

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11/8/16 (aka November 8th) documentary review: too soon, too soon

Wed, Dec 06, 2017
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An important portrait of America on the day that changed it for the worse… but difficult to watch, with the impact of the election still spiraling out of control.

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Zero Days documentary review: the code war has begun

Thu, Jan 12, 2017
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Fascinating and horrifying. A gripping detective story and an impassioned call for public debate over terrifying weapons that have already been loosed.

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi movie review: American mercenary

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
71 comments

Michael Bay propagandizes for a right-wing idea of “true America,” seething with disdain for anyone who isn’t a former elite soldier turned mercenary.

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Camp X-Ray movie review: all of us behind bars

Mon, Jan 18, 2016
40 comments

Superbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart’s steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies.

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Citizenfour documentary review (London Film Festival)

Thu, Oct 23, 2014
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Edward Snowden speaks. Buy a ticket to this film… and use your credit card, so the NSA knows you care about this stuff.

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must we resign ourselves to living in a total-surveillance state?

Sat, Jun 08, 2013
16 comments

I don’t want to think this is the case, but when even the Constitutional scholar U.S. President is okay with it, I’m not seeing any other options…

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Turkey is home to a very famous cat… and it has its own tumblr

Tue, Apr 30, 2013
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Of course it does. Ladies and gentlemen, meet The Hagia Sophia Cat…

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QOTD: Has pop culture given us an unrealistic idea of what a police state looks like?

Wed, Feb 13, 2013
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While many people would likely agree that films such as 1984 and Brazil are horrifying depictions of police states — and they are — relatively few people seem bothered by the realities we’re living with today…

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question of the day: Who is the entertainment person of the year for 2012?

Fri, Dec 21, 2012
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Please don’t say Honey Boo Boo or I will have to kill myself.

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