Category Archives: Film

Saturday Matinee: First Reformed

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

Synopsis by A24 Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Population: 1

Posted on February 8, 2020 by

Home of the Grave: Rene Daalder’s ‘Population: 1’ By Eve Tushner Source: We Are The Mutants “It is my dubious privilege to confirm the fact that man never invented anything that he didn’t eventually put to use.” That’s how Tomata … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Society

Posted on February 1, 2020 by

“A Matter of Good Breeding”: The Shape-Shifting Elite in Brian Yuzna’s ‘Society’ By Noah Berlatsky Source: We Are the Mutants The elite is an amorphous clotted blob of parasitic greed and hate. Its tendrils extend with slimy stealth into every … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Dead Zone

Posted on January 25, 2020 by

“The Dead Zone” (1983) is a horror/drama directed by David Cronenberg based on a novel by Stephen King. When Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma caused by a car accident, he finds that years have passed. Heartbroken that … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts

Posted on January 18, 2020 by

Documentary Released Monday Sheds New Light on Ukrainegate Source: Consortium News A new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News on Monday, sorts out the complicated scandal and the role Joe Biden … Continue reading →

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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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