The conversation on the bias and inequality in the entertainment industry has been going on for some time now. In 2015, the movement behind raising the bar for women in film and entertainment has thankfully stretched beyond idol mentions and has consistently boiled up into action beyond words. Tonight’s Moonfaze Feminist Film festival at LA […]
starz docnight – following sean – THURSDAY, JUNE 7 It’s been almost 40 years since the flower children were running around the streets of San Francisco with flowers in their hair. The camera has always been shown on the psychedelic streets of the Haight Ashbury district and the people of that time, turning society on […]
AMERICAN JOBS (GREG SPOTTS ) “If Nafta tonight threatened the jobs of editorial writers and network news anchors and Wall Street bankers, this bill wouldn’t have a prayer.” That hard-hitting argument was made by Democratic Representative David R. Obey from Wisconsin as the House voted to renew NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement that […]
fahrenheit 9/11 (michael moore) There are staunch conservatives and Republicans that are already rallying against this movie site unseen, and for good reason. One can expect that their scared of losing control of the White House. Of those that were on the fence and were part of a focus group in Michigan, they left with […]
The Fog Of War (2003, Errol Morris) Errol Morris’s documentary on Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, somehow doesn’t feel like a documentary. There are no other viewpoints, just an interview with McNamara, now 85, occasional tapes of conversations between McNamara and either of the two presidents he served under, and […]
Kill Bill, Volume 1. (2003, Quentin Tarantino) Oh, how happy am I to be able to type that name as the director of a movie again. Tarantino, it’s been too long. But the master of American independent film is back, going over budget and over time in magnificent, gore-filled style. Uma Thurman is The Bride, […]
