daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)
2020’s Herself is on Prime in the US, on Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
Margaret Thatcher
Blue Jean movie review: cowardice and bravery as matters of survival
A powerful, necessary film, deeply humane and sympathetic, ugly-beautiful in its panic, full of dread and bad behavior. We feel every iota of Jean’s anxiety at closeted life in the homophobic 1980s.
Bank Job documentary review: culture jamming for fun and justice
Brilliantly tantalizing, bursting with creative enthusiasm and bouncy energy, this cheeky work of artistic activism is out to subvert our debt-driven economy. Who says smashing injustice can’t be fun?
Blinded by the Light movie review: bend it like The Boss
Seriously adorkable teen is saved, in 1987, by the rock poetry of Bruce Springsteen. The Boss is still relevant today, as is, alas, the harsh political and economic setting of Thatcher’s Britain.
Requiem for the American Dream and The Divide documentaries review: economic inequality for all
Two powerful documentaries look at the ever-growing wealth gap, and introduce us to some of those struggling through the resultant financial insecurity.
Where Are the Women? The Emperor’s New Clothes
With interviews with women impacted by our difficult economic times and an appearance by Margaret Thatcher, women are fairly well represented here. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Pride movie review: hanging together rather than hanging separately
One of the rare movies that gets absolutely everything right, bursting with happy-tears emotion about solidarity, friendship, and smashing bigotry.
is the BBC just plain chickenshit… or not?
It’s okay to endanger lives to get a story about North Korea, but not okay to play “DIng Dong the Witch Is Dead” on the radio because someone’s fee-fees might be hurt. What the actual fuck, BBC?
The Iron Lady (trailer)
If I had to pick a song I’d least expect to appear in the trailer for a film about Margaret Thatcher, it would be “Our House” by Madness.
The Undefeated (trailer)
Warrior! Sarah Palin is a warrior! Like a Marine! She represents a threat to establishments! The phony intelligensia don’t like her!
