Tag: Films
Official Secrets: Best Movie So Far This Year
Official Secrets dramatizes the story of how British whistleblower Katharine Gun tried to expose the false pretenses used to justify the war on Iraq.
Read MoreWhat’s Missing from Dunkirk Film
The story of Dunkirk, the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, is a story of how the Allies treated people they had some use for.
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Watching Putin Watch Dr. Strangelove
Putin’s views on history and current politics are generally consensus views in Russia, but they will largely be new to U.S. viewers.
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Brad Pitt Does Stanley McChrystal: When Netflix’ War Movie Stops Being Funny
The Netflix original film War Machine constitutes the extent of the punishment that the real Stanley McChrystal will ever receive for his crimes.
Read MoreDisturbing the Peace: A Film on Ending the Israeli Occupation ‘With Your Own Hands’
The film Disturbing the Peace provides great insight into the conflicting perspectives between Israelis and Palestinians—and how peace will be realized.
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: Reflections on Past and Present
As a Jew, and even more as a human being, I feel morally comfortable and politically responsible in calling upon Israel to dismantle its apartheid regime.
Read MoreFilm Review: Cries from Syria
The HBO documentary film Cries from Syria doesn’t tell the whole story about the so-called “Civil War” there, but it does highlight the most critical part.
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Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Michael Moore’s “Trumpland” is a textbook illustration of how the mindset of voting for “the lesser evil” just results in self-delusion—and ever more evil.
Read MoreThe U.S. National Bird Is Now a Drone
The film National Bird about the US’s use of drone warfare presents the kind of raw truth you won’t get from the mainstream news outlets.
Read MoreFilm Review: Disturbing the Peace
Disturbing the Peace presents a view of the Israel-Palestine conflict most Americans have never seen, but should familiarize themselves with.
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Snowden: Best Film of the Year
Snowden is the most entertaining, informing, and important film you are likely to see this year.
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A Review of the Documentary Film ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’
South Africa demonstrates that BDS is a valid method to counter occupation and oppression and can provide a peaceful means of resolution to the conflict.
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The Killer Drone Lovers Have Their Movie
If the recent spate of anti-drone movies and plays was making you feel warm thoughts about U.S....
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Syria may not be Panem, but it’s full of ‘Mockingjays’
The hunger games of starvation, death and destruction is real, and it continues to plague Syria with no imminent end at sight.
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American Sniper: Racist Propaganda and American Empire
The filmmakers’ defense of “American Sniper” as “apolitical” is belied by the lack of any depth or humanity in its Muslim characters.
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Viewing American Sniper
American Sniper fails completely to make an to understand the experience of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Iraqis.
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The Mockingjay of Palestine: “If we burn, you burn with us”
Resistance is yet to be defeated in Gaza.
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Film Review: John Pilger’s ‘Utopia’
Utopia creates a picture of struggle and survival against the oppressive nature of a racist society.
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OMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
OMAR in some respects is superior even to PARADISE NOW, telling the story of what life under Israeli occupation means for how Palestinian lives are lived.
Read MoreGetting Your History from Hollywood
Imagine a documentary film about the Holocaust which makes no mention of Nazi Germany.
Imagine a documentary film about the 1965-66 slaughter of as many as a million “communists” in Indonesia which makes no mention of the key role in the killing played by the United States.
But there’s no need to imagine it. It’s been made, and was released this past summer. It’s called “The Act of Killing” and makes no mention of the American role.
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