Due to the proliferation of streaming services, and also the pandemic pushing a whole new class of movies to video on demand channels, there's been a sudden glut of documentaries in the late summer and early fall.
This 2005 documentary about presidential hopeful, Cory Booker, is a fascinating portrait of bare-knuckle, East Coast urban politics. But the 80-minute film also deals with a lot of issues that are still resonant in politics, and are likely to remain so in the 2020 election.
Politics crossed paths with 'The Godfather' films again this week, not for the first time in the Trump era, and probably not the last either.
Radical Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña provides his unique perspective on borders, Trump, hope, and the role of the artist.
One is to be directed by Zach Heinzerling and Gabrielle Schonder, while another is in the works from the team behind the 'WeWork' Hulu documentary.
Described as a classic dystopian faith-based YA gun rights movie. 'The Reliant' will have a one-night-only Fathom Events release, on October 24.
On February 28, 2016, three years ago now, HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver aired a segment that was especially prescient about the Trump era, and the many ways how mainstream comedy would try, and fail, to react to it.
Performance art strikes at the heart of the human experience, or at least tries to. What impact have performance artists had on our world and what makes for powerful performance art?
You may have heard, probably way more than you should have, about Sydney Sweeney's mother's 60th birthday party. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
'Primary Colors' occupies a strange place in the canon of American movies about politics. An unfortunate flop that was released right in the middle of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Members of the United States Congress making reference to famous hip-hop lyrics is a relatively new phenomenon in American politics. Also new? Reporters not knowing that they're hip-hop lyrics.
With Rage Against the Machine finally reuniting in 2020, now is a good time to look at a few of their influences as well as the impact their politically charged music has had.
In 1972, journalist Hunter S. Thompson provided characteristically unique insight into why the Democrats lost the election against Nixon. In 2016, we learned that the DNC didn't learn from their past mistakes.
The 1990s were a big decade for Hollywood studio-produced political comedies and satires, and the high-concept story of 'Dave' was certainly one of the most heartwarming.
Whenever there's a mass shooting — or, as has been the case in the U.S. in recent weeks, many of them — there's always the blaming of violent movies followed not long after by the charge of Hollywood anti-gun hypocrisy.
Have we become too complacent to investigate the repercussions that our indifference (or willful ignorance) has on our modern liberties?
Give Tim Robbins' film 'Bob Roberts' this, three decades after its release: they walked so Dr. Mehmet Oz could run.
Let's examine the Jussie Smollett situation and place the bulk of the blame where it properly belongs...
The study of film and its effect on human development has been a hotly debated and ever-growing field over the years, but it was Arthur P. Shimamra who coined the term "psychocinematics" to examine the way films affect our mental processes.
It's an election year, and if instead of watching the two party conventions this month you'd prefer a more cinematic view of politics, various streaming services and other platforms have launched a series of political documentaries throughout this summer.
30 years ago, Oliver Stone delivered 'JFK', one of the best edited movies in history, that on the one hand is almost wholly untrue while on the other hand hugely entertaining.
It's not exactly a golden time for political satire, especially at the movies, but this month marks the 20th anniversary of 'Dick', a beautifully sharp satire of the Watergate scandal.
'X' has deep roots tied to the '70s when films like 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' encapsulated America’s ideological duality; a duality that's reared it's blood soaked head once again, making it a perfect time for the return of the slasher and its much deeper themes.
While the film would appear to fit in with Sanders' beliefs about the greedy financial industry, its depiction of debauchery and drug usage is quite at odds with his personal aesthetic.