Posts Tagged ‘Bill Clinton’
Film Review – On the Basis of Sex
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lived an exceptional life. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York (as Joan Ruth Bader), Ginsburg studied at Cornell, attended Harvard, and earned her law degree at Columbia. She spent much of her career focused on gender equality and women’s…
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Film Review – The Front Runner
There are two stories in The Front Runner (2018), and I’m not so sure either one is all that effective. The first involves Colorado Senator Gary Hart, who in 1988 ran for President and was the favorite to win. However, what looked like surefire victory…
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Film Review – Crown Heights
If there is one thing that writer/director Matt Ruskin does well in Crown Heights (2017), it’s highlighting the fact that the justice system is inherently flawed. With pressure put upon law enforcement to swiftly capture criminals to the racial profiling of minorities (particularly those of…
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SIFF Double Feature – Weiner and Resilience
Weiner: Holy crap is Anthony Weiner a dumbass. He’s also idealistic, brash, attention seeking, quick to anger, a great public speaker, politically motivated, and married to a very smart woman whom he just cannot seem to stop humiliating. To refresh your memory, Weiner was a…
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Film Review – How to Survive a Plague
While the documentary How to Survive a Plague is certainly not an easy watch (and is, in fact, often harrowing), it’s an important one and well worth your time. It’s composed mostly of archival footage, but interweaves that seamlessly with some of the most riveting…
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Film Review – Argo
I’ve made no secret of my admiration for the work of Ben Affleck. Frequently I think he is the best part of the movies he is involved in—I’ve used the case of Good Will Hunting as an example numerous times. Despite winning an Academy Award…
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