Exposing political and moral agendas in movies
Howard M. Riell 
Tough to tell whether The Invisible Man is simply the name of a new movie or a commentary on the way men in American society have been minimized – and boys feminized …
China. Big place. Lots of people. Weird food. And some heavy-duty influence in Hollywood. Hollywood? Yep. When we’re talking about movie agendas it’s no longer just left-wing quiche-eating yutzes in …
Keep an eye cocked throughout this review for the word “tedious” in all its grammatical forms, because it will recur. “Bland, witless and ludicrous’ – Elizabeth Banks’s reboot of this …
Oy — not God again! Richard Dawkins — English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, one-time University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science and …
Remember Camelot? No, not the Kennedys. The musical. It was a play about striving, reaching, questing. “To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To try when your …
If you’ve got a penis…… HOLY CRAP ARE YOU IN FOR IT NOW! Nothing with testosterone escapes unmutilated in today’s red-hot revenge genre. A pair of new movies – A Vigilante, starring …
What the hell is Harvey Weinstein doing smack in the middle of a freakin’ Avengers movie? No, I don’t mean the blubbery, bullying groper (and worse) of women has donned …
In Jewish lore, the golem — a soulless and violent creature fashioned from clay who wreaks terrible vengeance on anti-semites — is powered by kabbalistic magic. In this year’s The Golem, …
The Post presents The Washington Post newspaper as a champion of press freedom back in the early 1970s for publishing the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the U.S. government …
Back in the ‘80s I worked in midtown Manhattan, and frequently there was this pedal-to-the-metal feminist with a card table set up on the sidewalk festooned with posters and literature …
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