In Time is a movie for the attractive, radical redistributionist in your life.
Movies
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A Different Kind of Revenge Film
There’s more than one way to be subversive.
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Batman the Gentrifier
In real-life, the superhero’s do-gooding would push all the poor people out of Gotham.
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Do Sports Matter?
Jay Smooth notes, in the context of the NBA Finals, that the masses pay well for their opiates and LeBron James broke a cardinal rule of sports by reminding people that they don’t really matter: I’m not ready to say “sports don’t matter” in a world where terrorists are willing to murder and mutilate World […]
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
A dissenting opinion on American Beauty.
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If Wishing Only Made it So
Two recent movies, Patch Adams and Life Is Beautiful, each claim to reveal the relation between fantasy and politics. One succeeds magnificently; the other is a fraud.