Weiner, a documentary about the 2013 New York City mayoral campaign of Anthony Weiner, is very funny and very painful. It’s also one of the most engaging and insightful political movies I’ve seen. Co-directors Elyse Steinberg and former Weiner chief of staff Josh Kriegman were given extraordinary access to Anthony Weiner as he attempted to…
Did you know that it takes a village to raise a horse? When it comes to cultivating anything: Time, patience, tenderness, love, and care are all essential. Many of us want something and success (in whatever area that excites you) is almost always on the top of the list. To experience the potential payoffs of…
Climate change’s main drivers coincide with the main drivers of economic growth. We cannot have both, it seems. We do not get to preserve the Earth if we get to develop our economic prosperity in it. This is a dichotomy in all its height, an ill-conceived binary that produces nothing but contradiction and conflict, a…
“Et tu, Brute?” — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1 Capitalism came into this world the same way in which every other system has been brought about: Through families. Yes, I know . . . you’re probably thinking that I’m full of shit, that I’m making things up, that I’m falling into gross…
Racism is still alive. We know that very well, even when, sometimes, some still have the nerve to deny it. Racism was an entirely economic enterprise through which something utterly immoral was justified on the very grounds of morality (i.e., white supremacy) — and the US had never done better, economically speaking, than when racism…
If you are at all interested in six weeks of paid vacation, an extra month’s salary and a two-hour lunch break, you just might have to go to Italy to find it. Filmmaker Michael Moore (“Capitalism: A Love Story,” “Sicko”), a welcome voice for sanity, returns to the big screen in his first film in…
The impact of a documentary is generally determined by either the power of the filmmaking or the potency of the subject matter. Of course, the best documentaries are those that draw strength from both areas of the process, but those are rarer than the docs that earn points for simply finding a great topic and…
