movies of 2024
Review: Sacramento (2024)
Men are not OK
Mark Pritchard
basketball
Anti-fascist cinema: Freaky Tales (2024)
Oakland once again provides the setting for a surreal, anarchic vision
sabotage
Review: Secret Mall Apartment (2025)
Is it art, or just a treehouse?
bank robbery
Review: Novocaine (2025)
Somewhere on the scale from gratuitous violence to cartoon violence to slapstick
Mel Brooks
Anti-fascist cinema: Satire's brief triumph
On "The Producers" (1967) and "Cabaret" (1972): Come for the songs, stay for the laughs, leave with the shivers
sabotage
Anti-fascist cinema: Nr. 24 (2024)
"Nonviolence is lovely, but it doesn't work when your country has been taken by people who despise humanity."
Olympics
Review: The Teachers' Lounge (2023) and September 5 (2024)
Two unusual thrillers featuring a stunning German actor, Leonie Benesch
sabotage
Anti-fascist film: The Train (1964)
Sabotage and subterfuge are the tools of the French Resistance in this exciting WWII movie
music industry
Review: Vengeance (2022)
What starts as a fish-out-of-water comedy gets deeper until 'Everything means everything'
movies of 2006
Anti-fascist cinema: 'The Lives of Others' and 'The Pianist'
Two films that revolve around the notion that classical music can penetrate the hardened heart
fascism
Anti-fascist cinema: Ida (2013)
First in a series on films with anti-fascist and anti-totalitarian stories and themes
Hollywood
Review: Violet (2021)
That interior critic that tells you you're not good enough has a starring role in this feminist drama