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The Short and Sweet Side of the Oscars
Dan Schindel takes a gander at this year's Oscar-nominated short films, which include several films about the Syrian refugee crisis, a 3D short reminiscent of Jean-Luc Godard, and the first VR film to be nominated for an Oscar.
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Finding Out the Damned Truth
On its 25th anniversary, Sean Gilman writes this essay about Oliver Stone's searing political film "JFK."
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Striking Similarities: “Sully” and “Snowden” Share a Political Ethos
In their respective films, Oliver Stone and Clint Eastwood examine the concept of duty as going beyond title.
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“Strangelove’s” Searing, Scathing, Satirical Sexual Shenanigans
Charles Bramesco writes about Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," now on Criterion Blu-ray.
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District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
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Top 6 Reel Political Moments
With Election Day here at last, we can finally set aside some time from the day to actually vote. When it's all said and done, go back home and reflect with some of these better politically-themed films and cartoons.
1) The Candidate (dir. Michael Ritchie)
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A New Era of Hollywood Scandals?
When the allegations that director Bryan Singer drugged and raped a 17-year-old boy in 1999 recently came to light, moviegoers who were looking forward to his upcoming film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, were confronted with a series of difficult questions: Shou...
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How Hollywood Does Politics These Days
If you were watching the Emmys two Sundays ago, you’d be forgiven for thinking you had mistakenly clicked to CNN or MSNBC. It seemed like half the winners were shows about politics. Veep took home a couple of acting awards, Jeff Daniels was a surprise winner f...
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