Film and TV
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‘Don’t Look Up’: Why the Climate Crisis Isn’t a Comet, and Why That Matters
'Don’t Look Up' presents an opportunity to reignite the climate movement. That means we have to look beyond its creators’ calls for individual action.
Emma Lee
January 1, 2022The New Matrix Film Could Have Been a Brilliant Satire — Instead We Get Corporate Slop
Matrix: Resurrections is a profoundly unnecessary film that exemplifies the blandness of Hollywood in the age of capitalism’s decline.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 31, 2021Against Subtlety: ‘Don’t Look Up’ Is the Movie for Our Moment
Don’t Look Up is The Movie about what it feels like to be alive right now. It’s a masterpiece of 21st-century climate anxiety and, more importantly, class rage.
Sybil Davis
December 30, 2021‘Dune’ Is Anticolonialism as Imagined by Megacorporations
The new film based on Frank Herbert's epic is full of anti-imperialist imagery, but it amounts to nothing more than a Hollywood version of colonial resistance struggle.
Lily Cichanowicz
October 21, 2021“Squid Game” Is an Allegory for Capitalist Society
In the hit Korean show “Squid Game,” working-class contestants are given a gruesome chance to win millions, or die trying. An allegory for capitalism, the show’s “game” can only exist because of the structural poverty produced under our exploitative system.
Luis Velázquez
October 4, 2021The Witch Forever Lives: Capitalism and Queer Liberation in Netflix’s Fear Street
Netflix just released a trilogy of horror films that offer a visceral and, ultimately, inspirational look at the fight against capitalism.
Sybil Davis
July 16, 2021The Neoliberal Fantasy at the Heart of “Nomadland”
Chloé Zhao’s film erases capitalism as the cause of economic pain, instead telling a story of individual suffering.
Luigi Morris
April 30, 2021If You Do One “Irish” Thing Today, Watch “The Wind that Shakes the Barley”
St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect occasion to watch the best film ever made about the Irish fight for freedom against British occupation in the early 20th century.
Scott Cooper
March 17, 2021A Sledgehammer: Review of Judas and the Black Messiah
A revolutionary socialist and Left Voice correspondent who met Fred Hampton in 1969 reviews the new Fred Hampton biopic, Judas and the Black Messiah.
Rob Lyons
March 1, 2021Five Queer Lady Films to Watch Instead of “Happiest Season”
Here we present quality queer films to watch over the winter holidays.
Maria Aurelio
December 25, 2020