Exposing political and moral agendas in movies
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 …
For once, environmentalism is just a red herring. Sure, Happy Feet does touch on green themes, with humans cluttering up the Arctic mainland with refuse and overfishing the surrounding oceans. …
Seriously, what is up with teenage girls saving the world from thickheaded adults? Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, and now Moana. Though there is much going for the movie about the …
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 word “update” is swiftly becoming Hollywood-speak for “hot mess.” From Noah to A Wrinkle in Time, it’s in vogue to paste modern social-justice messages into classics, sacrificing the elements …
A running gag in Pixar and Disney’s 2003 collaboration Finding Nemo, is that although Marlin is a clownfish, he’s not particularly funny. Neither are the movie’s hidden agendas. Quick Run-Down …
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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Frozen gets a lot of flack due to the perceived LGBTQ overtones. When the movie first arrived in theaters it sparked controversy, with many viewers saying that the plot clearly …