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THE FUTURE THAT SLEEPING DOGS PREDICTED HAS NOT ARRIVED. YET.

Sam Neill's first feature film was Sleeping Dog s, released in 1977. It predicted a near-future New Zealand where a totalitarian gov...

Charlie Chaplin defended working class interests and spoke out against Nazism at a time when the United States still maintained diplomatic r...

The Queen's Gambit has captured the public imagination in the way few television dramas usually do... AT FIRST GLANCE a television dr...

Joker is both bleak and childish... IN 1993 Michael Douglas starred in Falling Down . He plays a divorced and unemployed forme...

Capital in the 21st Century by French economist Thomas Piketty has sold nearly three million copies worldwide. It has now been ma...

Chris Hedges: Peter Jackson is peddling war pornography with a modern sheen. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges has descr...

Boots Riley " Sorry to Bother You is simply unlike anything out there. In its form, it is edgy and at times disturbing, but ...

The Young Karl Marx has just been released in the United States to positive reviews, with one reviewer liking Karl Marx and Friedric...

THE RAZZIE AWARDS celebrate the movies that people got conned into actually paying money to watch. This year, for the very first time, ...

Bladerunner 2049 depicts a world that has regressed to barbarism. IT WAS THE ORIGINAL Bladerunner film , released in 1982, that laid...

Raoul Peck, the director of I Am Not A Negro , has released a new movie based on a brief period in the life of the young Karl Marx. ...

Although it is set against the backdrop of the 1996 re-election of Bill Clinton, Warren Beatty's film Bulworth can tell us muc...

Star Trek is fifty years old this week.

99 Home s is a harrowing examination of modern America, where the vampires play... 99 Homes Director: Ramin Bahrani THE 2008 FI...

Interstellar might dream of new worlds but, right now and right here, we still have one world to win and one planet to save. INTERS...

Activist duo and performance pranksters Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos formed their alter egos the Yes Men to uncover the truth behind va...