The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …
Category Archives: Movies
The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture
I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I …
More Movie Violence: Staying On the Wagon
After holding myself into my seat to get to the end of Quentin Tanrantino’s Inglorious Basterds several years ago I …
Zero Dark Thirty: Is It Pornography?
I’ve been wrestling with myself about whether or not to see Zero Dark Thirty, not only because the violence is …
Chasing Ice — A Movie, And Evidence, Not To Miss
We’d put Chasing Ice, a new documentary by Jeff Orlowski, on the second tier of movies-to-see over the holidays. But …