My ten-year-old was inspired by this film about how Muslim and Hindu children rise together out of poverty.read more

“All art is to better life. We want to create more pleasure, and object to despair. It’s about creating a space where we can be less aggressed upon.” By Morvary Samaréread more

“We don’t seem to learn from our mistakes,” said Stone, who called the war on drugs ‘a 42-year-old farce, a disaster of immense proportions.’ ”read more

The anti-Obama screed is almost psychedelic.read more

The progressive filmmaker takes on the Koch brothers in his new venture.read more

Terry Tempest Williams celebrates the filmmaker as activist.read more

Director Charles Ferguson’s first film, No End in Sight, snagged an Academy Award nomination. Ferguson’s second doc, Inside Job, won the Best Documentary Oscar. His acceptance speech was the finest moment of this year’s otherwise exceptionally boring Academy Awards ceremony.read more

He tweaked the Academy for being a “commie and homo-loving” crowd, thereby taking the sting out of those epithets.read more

Like others before it, this was a voyeuristic look at the Third World’s poor and vulnerable. There was no sense of history, no glimpse of peoples’ struggles and really no dignity.read more

The Progies are the “un-Oscars” annually awarded by the James Agee Cinema Circle – an international group of left movie critics and historians -- for the Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers of conscience and consciousness. The envelopes please.read more

The PROGIE NOMINEES ARE
For best picture: "Milk," "Che," "Battle in Seattle," "The Visitor," "Waltz with Bashir," and "Wendy and Lucy." For best actor...read more

“I didn’t set out to be a political activist,” says the director of Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss. “I’m just a human being who’s moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”read more