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Cenk Uygur Celebrates a Billion Views
By Ed Rampell, May 13, 2013 It’s common for lefties to lament the rightwing dominance of talk radio, FOX News’ ratings (and rantings) on cable TV and the like. But in the mass media wars, progressives...
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Revenge Fantasy in “Assault on Wall Street”
By Ed Rampell, May 15, 2013 A new film is picking up where Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job” left off. However, German director Uwe Boll’s indie is not a thoughtful documentary aimed at intellectuals....
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Heckler-In-Chief: CodePink’s Medea Benjamin
By Ed Rampell, May 24, 2013 CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin is at it again.On Thursday, she repeatedly interrupted and even got into a back-and-forth exchange with President Obama, during his...
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LA Film Festival Full of Political Work
By Ed Rampell, June 20, 2013 Cinema without politics is like junk food. That’s proven yet again by the nutritiously fulfilling LA Film Festival, which is taking place June 13-23 in downtown Los...
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Top 10 Civil Rights Films: The Movies March on Washington
By Ed Rampell, August 23, 2013 August 28 is the 50th anniversary of the historic march on the U.S. capital, and Hollywood was well represented. Actors such as Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Harry...
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Costa-Gavras
By Ed Rampell, September 2013 Issue Costa-Gavras is arguably the world’s greatest living political filmmaker.Born in Arcadia, Greece, in 1933, to the son of a blacklisted father, Costa-Gavras...
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“GMO OMG”—Watch What You Eat!
By Ed Rampell, September 13, 2013 If it’s true that “we are what we eat” -- then the new wittily titled documentary “GMO OMG” is no laughing matter. In his globetrotting film, which opens...
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Psychoanalyst Interprets Obama on Syria
By Ed Rampell, September 14, 2013 What makes Barack tick? To find out, The Progressive interviewed Harvard-educated, Washington-based psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank, author of the 2011 book “Obama on...
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Go See “The Trials of Muhammad Ali”
By Ed Rampell, September 21, 2013 Bill Siegel’s hard-hitting yet delightful documentary. “The Trials of Muhammad Ali,” pulls no punches. It tells the true story about the boxer’s greatest fight --...
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Go See the Movie about MOVE: “Let the Fire Burn”
By Ed Rampell, October 7, 2013 Jason Osder’s “Let the Fire Burn” is a documentary about the only aerial bombing carried out by government forces against American citizens inside the U.S.A. during the...
View Article‘The Fifth Estate’: A Hit Job on WikiLeaks?
By Ed Rampell, October 10, 2013 Is Tinseltown’s new WikiLeaks feature film fact or fiction?Is “The Fifth Estate” history, or the character assassination of Julian Assange?He’s the man who founded the...
View ArticleNew Documentary 'The Kill Team' Pulls No Punches
By Ed Rampell, October 15, 2013 Army Specialist Adam Winfield found out the hard way that not only is it tough times for those who dare to blow the whistle, but the first casualty of war is still...
View Article'Jesus Camp' Goes to Africa in 'God Loves Uganda'
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 11, 2014 One may think that the bad old days of colonialism in the developing world are over, but nobody bothered to tell that to the missionaries at the Kansas City-based...
View ArticleAnita Hill Finally Tells All in Oscar-Winner's New Film
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 12, 2014 Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock’s latest documentary opens with a close-up shot of a telephone. The voice of Ginni Thomas is heard urging Anita Hill to apologize...
View ArticleStunning Documentary 'Freedom Summer' is Cinematic Lightning
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 24, 2014 Stanley Nelson’s gripping new documentary “Freedom Summer” takes audiences to Mississippi in 1964, telling the tale of the 1,000 young people who poured into the state to...
View ArticleOscar-Nominated Palestinian Filmmaker: Freedom Fighters Are Not Superheroes
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 25, 2014 On Valentine’s Day I was part of a panel discussion about Hollywood’s global influence for the Al Jazeera TV program “Empire” with filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad. The...
View Article'Generation War': Film Grapples With the German Side of WWII
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 26, 2014 I’m antiwar, but for some reason I love good war movies, especially ones about World War II. While the Vietnam flicks may have better rock ’n' roll soundtracks, WWII is...
View ArticleJuvenile Injustice on Display in “Kids for Cash”
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 27, 2014 How to corrupt judges sent profited by sending kids away.The harrowing new documentary “Kids for Cash” is, among other things, a cautionary tale about where privatization...
View ArticleProgie Awards for 2013’s Best Progressive Films
By Ed Rampell, Feb. 28, 2014 Great Movies You Won’t Hear About at the Academy AwardsIn a sharp departure from establishment Hollywood, two films that weren’t even nominated for Oscars or Golden Globes...
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