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Dark Alliancenew
Lionel Rolfe recounts the 1990s when Gary Webb's stories on the CIA and their flooding the streets of Los Angeles with crack cocaine to finance death squads in Nicaragua.
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Lionel Rolfe |
10-24-2014 |
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In Theaters Now: Red Hook Summernew
This is a Spike Lee Joint and disharmony is Lee's stock-in-trade.
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Danny Simon |
08-30-2012 |
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In Theaters Now: Total Recallnew
Total Recall is filled with gritty CGI, bad acting, and beautiful people. This film contains the requisite witty black sidekick, explosions, and cars without wheels. What it doesn’t contain is a purpose.
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Danny Simon |
08-08-2012 |
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In Theaters Now: The Dark Knight Risesnew
On Friday night, I anxiously peered through the movie theatre dim for a gun totting psychopath. I scanned the exits, though doubtless, I would’ve been powerless to protect myself or anyone around me from harm. Call it irrational paranoia or rational cautiousness, I feared that a copy cat or a conspirator in league with James Eagan Holmes would visit death upon the audience. We see movies to temporarily escape the realities of our lives yet, while we share the director’s vision, we are terribly vulnerable to acts of violent lunacy. As the trailers rolled by, I wondered how this hadn’t happened before and how long before it will happen again.
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Danny Simon |
07-23-2012 |
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Lincoln Made Into Just Another Action Heronew
Over the weekend, a twelve year old named Charlie saw Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
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Danny Simon |
06-26-2012 |
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Something from Nothing Belongs in Hip Hip Canonnew
This documentary eschews the expected celebrity egomania and gets at the process of how complex wordplay is inspired and constructed to fit the beat. And along the way, the film exposes a central truth often obscured by posturing and media noise. The artists that create rap are the biggest fans of all.
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Danny Simon |
06-22-2012 |
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Prometheus: In space, no one can hear you scream, or scratch your headnew
It’s always hard to understand why any director would choose to tarnish the memory of the project that made their career. Lucas. Spielberg. And now, Ridley Scott. These guys have vaults like Scrooge McDuck, so what makes them so careless with their legacy?
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Danny Simon |
06-13-2012 |
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In Theaters Now #1: The Five-Year Engagementnew
I got lucky the other night, well kinda. Romantic comedies generally follow a predictable course; there is the meeting of an unlikely couple, the “getting-to-know-you” montage, the cumming together, the falling apart, and the big happy double reach around ending. Like crack cocaine or chocolate, rom-coms are designed to momentarily distract us from our comparably imperfect lives in which we don’t look, talk or fuck like the movie stars on the screen. Ironically, the distraction offered by rom-coms fuels a sense of dissatisfaction so we need more distraction and then poof, we’re stuck in a rom-com downward death spin cycle which retards the audience just a bit more with every incarnation.
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Danny Simon |
05-13-2012 |
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September 11 American Intolerance
The story behind the film September Dawn and the unveiling of one of the most hidden secrets of Mormon religious fanaticism -- the Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857.
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James Preston Allen |
09-18-2007 |
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Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
The Transforming Art of Michael Moore
For Moore, the real publicity bonanza is -- as it has been since 9/11 itself -- the knee-jerk attempts of ham-fisted powerbrokers to try to shut him up. Each attempt at censoring what he has to say has only made him stronger, and has made people all the more eager to know what’s so dangerous and forbidden.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-18-2004 |
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