Restrepo — Documenting Soldiers In A War
Hand-held verisimo video has been much in the news lately, bringing, at long last a change in perception about the reality …
Tag Archives: Movies:America
The Prison of Belief
“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true,” reads a bumper sticker I’ve recently seen. It’s not a popular …
Swing Vote – For Political Junkies of all Persuasions
By pure happenstance last night a few friends spun up the DVD of Swing Vote, the 2008 send-up of political …
A Most Violent Year: A Man Without Guns Prevails
One of the season’s offerings tries a point of view not often found in American movies — a guy who …
American Sniper
The deep belief in a lone war-time hero, acting beyond normal skills and courage, to save dozens if not hundreds …
A Jail Break Against the Draft
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …
H2 Worker – Legal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
Update below. As a one-time volunteer for the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) the human cost of industrialized field labor has …
The Garment Jungle — Old School Union Organizing
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the ILGWU, has a fabled name in labor and progressive circles, once one of …
Blue Valentine — Don’t Open this
I got off my regular movie beat of war, its causes, outcomes and human behavior this past weekend and landed …
Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures
Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them: Israeli soldier, …
Her — A Good Evening Squandered
Count me as among those who found Her, the new movie by Spike Jonze, very very borrrrring. By an hour …
Walter Mitty, Super Hero
Arghh! I am one of those apparently odd people who think that if an idea is developed for one medium …