Occupy the Cinema: The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair

Greg Mitchell’s new, short documentary addresses the California campaign for governor in 1934, when the boundaries between politics and media first became blurred.

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Occupy the Cinema: Till and the Enduring Demand for Justice

There’s sadness and trauma throughout the film, but also a light – literally and figuratively felt – that shines on Mamie Till, her son Emmett, and on the team of black activists that join the fight for justice.

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Flooding Onto the Screen: Films Reflect Dire Climate Moment For the Gulf South

It’s likely we’ll see more of these kind of movies, just as likely we’ll see more of these storms.

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Occupy the Cinema: Economic Hardship in "The Florida Project" and "Good Time"

The films, among the best of 2017, reveal a country under the thumb and the gun of a certain few who will never be satisfied with what they have.

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Occupy the Cinema: Confederate Statues Get the Documentary Treatment In New Orleans

Word of mouth has been making the rounds to turn what was the city's Lee Circle – named after the Confederate hero Robert E. Lee – into a place commemorating the man who belted “My Blue Heaven”

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Occupy the Cinema: "Blood in the Face" and Our Neo-Nazi Moment

This is a horror film for our time unlike any other – a documentary about the snowball effect that hate and misinformation produce from generation to generation, poisoning potentially good people with ugly evil.

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Occupy the Cinema: "Get Me Roger Stone" Unveils the Man Who Made Trump

The new Netflix documentary isn’t just a biopic on the political strategist and self proclaimed “agent provocateur” Roger Stone – it's a blueprint of sinister, cutthroat realpolitik and its execution throughout the dirtiest presidential campaign in recent memory.

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Occupy the Cinema: "Nobody Speak" Tackles Free Press and Journalism in the Age of Trump

At its core, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" raises the question of where the line is between public and private, whether crossing it is “bad,” and whether the news men and women who do so ought to be held legally accountable.

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Occupy the Cinema: A Super Pig and Mankind's Future In Dystopian "Okja"

Okja is the story of corporate dream factories run amok. It is a tome on the real beating heart of capitalism and the implications of letting that system operate with little to no impunity.

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Occupy the Cinema: In "Rat Film," Humans and Rodents Claw for American Survival

Through all the invisible walls that it demonstrates are surrounding us, "Rat Film" seems to conclude that people will continue living and making due. People, in general, won’t be brought down. We’ll find a way.

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