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BLACKKKLANSMAN IS THE FIRST ANTI-TRUMP FILM SO FAR  Released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville weekend incident, BlacKkKlansman identifies President Donald Trump as the fulfillment of the dreams of Klansman David Duke. The film begins and ends with documentary footage. Civil War carnage is presented in the beginning. Charlottesville chaos is captured toward the end. […]

THE BIOPICTHE CATCHER WAS A SPY IS FULL OF PUZZLES  After graduating in philology from Princeton, learning at least a dozen languages, Morris “Moe” Berg (played by Paul Rudd) decides to make a career as a catcher for major league baseball. That is the first puzzle, since he has the intelligence to make a career in

FREAK SHOW EXPOSES THE REAL FREAKS Transgender persons are increasingly finding acceptance on an equal basis with everyone else, based on the doctrine of integrationism. The Social Darwinist doctrine of assimilation requires conformity, leaving transgender persons as permanent outsiders. The two doctrines collide in Freak Show, directed by Trudie Styler. Most action in the film surrounds Billy

MARY SHELLEY FINDS WHY LOVE IS COMPLICATED Mary Shelley (played by Elle Fanning) wrote Frankenstein based on her experiences in the tiny free love community of Britain in the 1810s. She was the daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died a few days after Mary was born. Her father was the philosopher William Godwin (Stephen Dillane), who ran

BYE BYE GERMANY EXPLAINS WHY 4,000 JEWISH REFUGEES STAYED IN GERMANY After World War II, some 7 million displaced persons were placed in 800 resettlement camps operated by the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency. Due to bombing, dislocation, political chaos, and starvation, many had no home to return to. Within the American occupation zone, as featured

BITTER FATE EMERGES IN SWEET COUNTRY In the 1920s, Australians were still trying to set up cattle farming in the Northern Frontier, using some of the aboriginal peoples but not all. The farmers, an unruly lot, meet for booze in a nearby town but otherwise have to cope with difficult terrain. Some of the aboriginal people

CHAPPAQUIDDICK DROWNS MORE THAN MARY JO KOPECHNE The Kennedy curse may have accounted for the death of the first Kennedy son and the assassination of the next two Kennedys, but not for what happened to Ted Kennedy (played by Jason Clarke) on the night of July 18, 1969. At 11 p.m., after a party with a

WINNING FILMS OF 2017 ANNOUNCED Members of the Political Film Society voted during February to choose the best films of 2017 in four categories. Here are the films with the most favorable votes:  Democracy:                A United Kingdom, directed by Amma Asante Exposé:                      War Machine, directed by David Michôd   Human Rights: 

VOTING CONTINUES TO SELECT THE BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 Each year the Political Film Society gives awards for the best politically oriented films. Film directors receive the actual awards. Accordingly, ballots below appear for all four categories of awards:  For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people

VOTING BEGINS TO SELECT THE BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 Each year the Political Film Society gives awards for the best politically oriented films. Film directors receive the actual awards. Accordingly, ballots below appear for all four categories of awards:  For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people