Film
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Deep Fake Politics: Getting Adam Curtis Out of Your Head
Written by Aaron GoodWritten on Tuesday, 06 April 2021 00:40 Read more...
Aaron Good shares Part 1 of his review of Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head, which examines the problems with Curtis’ view of postwar US hegemony and his obscurantist tendencies regarding US monetary policy and international finance.
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Truth Is the Only Client
Written by Matt DouthitWritten on Sunday, 14 March 2021 07:05 Read more...
Matt Douthit reviews the 2019 self-produced documentary Truth Is the Only Client, streaming now on Amazon Prime, and finds it has essentially tried to take the modern and improved Oswald-did-it narrative from Vincent Bugliosi and Gerald Posner and then declare the Warren Commission way back in 1964 got it right after all.
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MLK / FBI
Written by Jeff CarterWritten on Saturday, 06 February 2021 21:40 Read more...
Jeff Carter examines Sam Pollard’s new documentary, MLK / FBI, regarding the extensive surveillance apparatus established by the FBI and directed at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Despite avoiding some moral issues on the part of the FBI, a generous view of this film is warranted and the widest distribution to a mainstream audience should be encouraged.
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Vincent Bugliosi, Tom O’Neill, Quentin Tarantino, and Tate/LaBianca, Part 2
Written by James DiEugenioWritten on Friday, 16 August 2019 18:13 Read more...
“The only good thing about this picture [Once Upon a Time in Hollywood] may be that Tarantino has said he is only going to make one more,” concludes Jim DiEugenio.
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Plaza Man: Robert Groden vs. the City of Dallas
Written by Frank CassanoWritten on Monday, 30 July 2018 18:25 Read more...
We’ve lost. They’ve won. Everywhere except in the court of public opinion. It’s sort of like watching a heavyweight prize-fight and having the guy who was knocked out declared the winner. The Power Elite says, “The public be damned! Who cares what they think?” Well, we do. And so does Bob Groden, writes Frank Cassano in this review of the 2014 documentary film about his battles with the City of Dallas and the Sixth Floor Museum.
Television & Media
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All in the Family: Charlotte and Jonathan Alter
Written by Wayne StewartWritten on Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:05 Read more...
In the best tradition of KennedysAndKing, reader Wayne Stewart read Charlotte Alter’s Time Magazine article and saw the corresponding TV spot. He replied to her with a letter, which we publish here. We hope it inspires others to do the same.
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Who Killed Malcolm X? (Review)
Written by Joseph E. GreenWritten on Saturday, 07 March 2020 22:36 Read more...
Joe Green reviews the documentary, Who Killed Malcom X? by Ark Media, exposing the omissions that sacrifice clarity and context by treating the assassination like an ordinary murder, chasing individual suspects and missing the underlying political structures.
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Ark Media and Malcolm X: Bad Acting and Half-Truths
Written by Karl EvanzzWritten on Sunday, 23 February 2020 23:45 Read more...
Karl Evanzz reviews the “theatrical” documentary, Who Killed Malcom X? by Ark Media, act by act and reveals the half-truths that make up the whole lie.
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King in the Wilderness
Written by James DiEugenioWritten on Friday, 27 July 2018 21:31 Read more...
Jim reviews what he deems to be the best of three recent TV documentaries on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tom Hanks and 1968
Written by James DiEugenioWritten on Wednesday, 27 June 2018 23:44 Read more...
A thoroughly mediocre rendering of a tumultuous year. Mediocre in every way, including aesthetically, concludes Jim DiEugenio.
Listen to the interview with David Giglio (Our Hidden History)
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UPDATED: CNN Disservices History –– American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Written by James DiEugenioWritten on Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:49 Read more...
Jim DiEugenio reveals what CNN had to cover up about JFK and RFK in order to make this six-part series (with updates including new information since the first airing).
Listen to the interview with David Giglio (Our Hidden History)
