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Anthem Film Festival: Police are Coming to Take Your Stuff and Kill Your Dog
Seized', winner of Anthem’s Best Short Documentary award, explores a police practice called civil asset forfeiture. 'Of Dogs and Men', winner of Best Libertarian Documentary Feature tries to explain why 10,000 pet dogs are killed by police every year.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: ‘Deep Web’ Explores Silk Road, Looking for the Dread Pirate Roberts
Before seeing 'Deep Web', like most people, I believed Silk Road was a criminal enterprise -- a gigantic drug network and online cartel run by a drug lord known as the "Dread Pirate Roberts." It turns out that this was a highly distorted picture.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Lenny Bruce, Gilbert Gottfried, and Penn Jillette vs. the Outrage Mob in ‘Can We Take a Joke’
We are reaching peak crazy. There are two possible outcomes. We get trampled or the rest of us wake up and start fighting the people who are trying to stifle free speech.
Read More »Sundance Film Festival Review: ‘Hooligan Sparrow,’ A Filmmaker Goes Undercover
Would you be incarcerated to fight injustice?
Read More »Movie Review: ‘How to Let Go of The World’ Written/Directed by Josh Fox
If the planet's temperature rises by 2 degrees, what climate impact will that have on coastal cities like New York and Miami? Tune in to HBO tonight for "How to Let Go of the World"
Read More »LA Film Festival Review: ‘Olympic Pride, American Prejudice,’ Narrated by Blair Underwood
"Olympic Price, American Predjudice" explores the real story behind the 1936 Olympics, Hitler and 18 African Americans who represented the Olympic Team USA.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Of Men and War,’ A Memorial Day Tribute
The statistics about PTSD are overwhelming. The numbers of vets who cannot deal and commit suicide are staggering.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue’ – Janis Joplin Documentary Bio
We see a few scenes of Janis and fellow musicians hard at work in the studio, and plenty of performance clips, but where the film excels is in showing us how her life fed her performances.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Shadow World’
How would you feel if a bribe that you took ended in people's deaths?
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