Politics and Films

Guilt — in the psychoanalytic tradition — is both a form of self-punishment and a key obstacle to therapeutic improv...

This was initially published by the Los Angeles Review of books One of the most gratifying aspects of Steven Spielberg’s movie L...

The newly released movie Beasts of the Southern Wild , by first-time Director Benh Zeitlin, has received critical praise and garnered presti...

Winston Smith, the protagonist and dissident in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, reflects upon the nature of the totalitarian regi...

In the play Waiting for Godot (now running at the Mark Taper Forum), Samuel Beckett's best known work, the main characters Vladimir and...

When I first heard of the Occupy movement's ritual of repeating a speaker's remarks as a way of orally transmitting the words toward...

George Clooney has a terrible sense of timing. The Ides of March is a cynical movie for what I'm sure Clooney regards as a cynical tim...