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He quit Hitler
Truth & Treason arrives in local theaters on the heels of Raoul Peck’s smashing documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5. That’s two anti-authoritarian films in a row at a time when most of us need a wake-up call.
Helmuth Hübener, the...
‘1984’? Now!
When someone spies the name “Orwell” in a movie title they’re pretty sure what to expect: George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a.k.a. 1984; nightmarish dystopian visions; the ubiquitous Big Brother and more. Similarly, a well-versed follower...
Two romances offer contrasting visual voyages
Movies are a visual medium. That little cliche nugget of wisdom about cinema that people like to bandy around has been stuck in my head since I watched two romances back to back this week.
Obviously it’s a...
Three September movies offer entertaining rides
We’re in that weird, transitional part of the year where the summer blockbusters have died out, but the prestige Oscar-bait is still being held back for another month or two. August and September are a crapshoot when...
‘Riefenstahl’ examines the life and career of a Nazi propagandist
On Aug. 21, the American Supreme Leader created yet another dubious government agency. The “National Design Studio” is named with this administration’s mastery of doublespeak. One imagines this studio as a facility modeled after the one in...
Blood-and-guts Darwinism reigns in Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’
Ron Howard’s 53rd directorial effort, Eden, is based on the true story of a group of European idealists who moved to a remote, uninhabited island in the South Pacific, circa 1929, in order to 1) escape encroaching...
Diametric double feature delivers catharsis
Those who want to watch a movie double feature with films so insanely polar opposite from each other that it factory resets their brains need look no further than the mind-melting combination of The Naked Gun and...
