Category Archives: Film

Saturday Matinee: Faces of the Enemy

Posted on January 11, 2020 by

Description from California Newsreel: As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the Enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Corporation

Posted on January 4, 2020 by

Director Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar’s “The Corporation” (2003) is a comprehensively researched film exploring the history of corporations, how they operate and how they’ve come to attain so much political power. Related topics include the 1933 attempted corporate coup … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Alternative 3

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

Alternative 3: The Hoax Behind The Conspiracy By Tom Keiser Source: WFMU “It makes no sense. I mean, how can people just vanish off the face of the Earth in this day and age?” In 1977, a conspiracy was hatched … Continue reading →

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Minority Report (2002) Esoteric Analysis

Posted on December 22, 2019 by

By Jay Dyer Source: Jay’s Analysis Spielberg’s Minority Report is now an important film to revisit.  Based on the short story by visionary science fiction author Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg’s film version implements an important number of predictive programming elements … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The City of Lost Children

Posted on December 21, 2019 by

By Bill Gibron Source: Pop Matters Film has always been a visual medium. In the days before sound, the image was all we had. It told our story, established our characters, and accentuated the drama or comedy. Visual flair is … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The One Percent

Posted on December 14, 2019 by

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Embrace of the Serpent

Posted on December 7, 2019 by

From Wikipedia: Embrace of the Serpent (Spanish: El abrazo de la serpiente) is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra, and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Shot almost entirely in black and white, the … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Rakka

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

From Oats Studios Rakka is the story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing and unrelenting, the humans we meet must find enough courage to go on fighting. Directed by Neill Blomkamp and … Continue reading →

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