• December 3, 2020
• At Home, Documentary

It is not very often that I have felt a full-body shudder of horror from watching something on screen. But early in the documentary Collective, about the investigation and...

• October 23, 2020
• At Home, Comedy

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev returns to the U.S. of A. fourteen years after being sent to the gulag for shaming his country. His mission? As an...

• May 3, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the sub-genre of romantic comedies where a completely neurotic, dorky, egotistical New York white male becomes romantic catnip to an...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Documentary

In 2006, Vice President Al Gore used his fame to explode environmentalism into the mainstream. Using a PowerPoint slide presentation as the core of his message, he managed to...

• December 21, 2017
• At Home, Drama, War

Darkest Hour covers Churchill’s first month as British Prime Minister, a role he is reluctantly thrust into after Parliament’s dissatisfaction with Neville Chamberlain’s inaction in response to the rise...

• August 16, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama

The opening credits of Confirmation offer a quick history lesson. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush was struggling to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court to fill the...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Sandra Bullock plays “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a political consultant apparently so ruthless that she can make even the most shady, incompetent politician into a winner. But Jane has been...

• February 12, 2016
• At Home, Documentary, War

I went into Where to Invade Next thinking it was Michael Moore’s take on U.S. military spending and warmongering. Count me surprised (and a little relived) that the film...

• August 14, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Wikipedia helpfully explains the odd title of this 3-hour adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s first “adult” novel: In politics, a casual vacancy is a situation in which a seat in...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Wag the Dog is one of those films that will probably have cyclical relevance through the years, depending on who is in the Oval Office. There will be years...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama

However, civic-minded issues don’t always make for compelling drama. Case in point: In Sunshine State, the thread that brings all the characters together in a small Florida tourist beach...

• September 8, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

You’d think that with the dirty campaigning shown in Street Fight that it was a national election, for President or Senate. But no, this is Newark, New Jersey, circa...