The hype surrounding the release of Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, Freedom, dazzled book lovers everywhere, even if [conservative pundit] David Brooks was less than
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Political movies have short “screen lives” in St. Louis
Recently, twelve high-school students and four staff members of our non-profit went to see the exciting political thriller, “Fair Game” at the Tivoli Theater in University
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One of the most interesting revelations of Charles Ferguson’s movie Inside Job was his exposure of the ways in which academic economists contributed to
Film “Inside Job” shows sharply divided America
Inside Job presents an illuminating account of how the financial meltdown of 2008 came to be. My biggest take away is that we are
Gerrymandering: The movie
I haven’t seen the new documentary film Gerrymandering but I’ve been intrigued by various reviews. Filmmaker Jeff Reichert tells the story of gerrymandering, beginning
“The Most Dangerous Man in America,” available, at last, on DVD
You have to be deep into middle age to know, first-hand, what Daniel Ellsberg did in the early 1970s to expose the top-level lies
Hotel Rwanda 2010
Its real name is the Hotel des Milles Collines. Moviegoers know it as the “Hotel Rwanda,” from the 2004 movie of the same name.