DEATH & TAXES (2024) Featuring James Bandler, Jimmy Berman, Chuck Collins, Clive Davis, Matthew Desmond, Beverly Eidreich, Anand Giridharadas, Darrick Hamilton, Amy Hanauer, Yvonne Johnson, Paul Krugman, Frank Luntz, Stephen Moore, Maria Mostago, Grover Norquist, Anne Price, Alissa Quart, Robert Reich, Joy Schein, Mark Schein, David Stockman, Felicia Wong, Eden Wurmfeld and archival footage of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
The Last Class (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE LAST CLASS (2024) Featuring Robert Reich. Directed by Elliot Kirschner. Distributed by Abramorama. 71 minutes. Not Rated. “I’ve been a professor, a teacher, for 42 years,” Robert Reich explains early on in this film about his last semester teaching at the University of California in Berkeley. “I’ve done a lot of other things, but … Continue reading
White With Fear (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
WHITE WITH FEAR (2024) Featuring Hillary Clinton, Steve Bannon, Jamie Raskin, Rick Gates, Rick Perlstein, Steven Miller, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ian Haney López, Aasif Mandvi, Tim Miller, Brian Stelter, Stuart Stevens, Leah Wright-Rigueur, Kevin Kruse, Joe Peyronnin, Aasif Mandvi, Wajahat Ali, Katie McHugh, Carol Anderson, Jean Guerrero, Sally Bradshaw, Sean Trende, Sam Nunberg, Carter … Continue reading
September 5 (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SEPTEMBER 5 (2024) Starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Corey Johnson, Georgina Rich, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker, Ferdinand Dörfler, Solomon Mousley, Daniel Betts, Jeff Book, Leif Eisenberg, Rony Herman, Robert Porter Templeton and archival footage of Jim McKay and Peter Jennings. Screenplay by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum. … Continue reading
The Last Republican (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
THE LAST REPUBLICAN (2024) Featuring Adam Kinzinger, Maura Gillespie, Sofia Kinzinger, Austin Weatherford and Steve Pink. Directed by Steve Pink. Distributed by Media Courthouse Documentary Collective. 90 minutes. Not Rated. Screened at the 2024 Philadelphia Film Festival. Former representative Adam Kinzinger is an old-school fiscal Republican, the type of tax-and-spend, small-government, center-right conservative who have … Continue reading
Sean Claffey – Director Tackles Income Disparity and Other Economic Travesties Through his Doc Americonned
Sean Claffey Director Tackles Income Disparity and Other Economic Travesties Through his Doc Americonned by Brad Balfour At CraicFest 2023, director Sean Claffey debuted his powerful doc Americonned. It offers commentary by various political and sociological experts and an examination of ordinary citizens’ lives in order to address the impact that super-capitalists – the one percenters – … Continue reading
Bobby Colomby and John Scheinfeld Explain What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears
Bobby Colomby and John Scheinfeld Explain What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears by Jay S. Jacobs “What goes up, must come down.” That line is not just the opening salvo of 1960s and 1970s hitmakers Blood, Sweat and Tears’ classic smash hit single “Spinning Wheel,” but it also is sadly a pretty … Continue reading
Let It Be Morning (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
LET IT BE MORNING (2021) Starring Alex Bakri, Juna Suleiman, Salim Daw, Ehab Salami, Khalifa Natour, Samer Bisharat, Yara Elham Jarrar, Maruan Hamdan, Doraid Liddawi, Izabel Ramadan, Arin Saba and Nadib Spadi. Screenplay by Eran Kolirin. Directed by Eran Kolirin. Distributed by Cohen Media Group. 101 minutes. Not Rated. There is a fine line between … Continue reading
Call Jane (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
CALL JANE (2022) Starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith, Grace Edwards, John Magaro, Aida Turturro, Bianca D’Ambrosio, Bruce MacVittie, Rebecca Henderson, Maia Scalia, Sean King and Alison Jaye. Screenplay by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. Directed by Phyllis Nagy. Distributed by Roadside Attractions. 121 minutes. Rated R. … Continue reading
Ambulance (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
AMBULANCE (2022) Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O’Donnell, Jackson White, Olivia Stambouliah, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell, Cedric Sanders, A Martinez, Jesse Garcia, Wale Folarin, Devan Chandler Long, Victor Gojcaj, Remi Adeleke, Jessica Capshaw, Randazzo Marc, Briella Guiza and Brendan Miller. Screenplay by Chris Fedak. Directed by Michael Bay. Distributed … Continue reading