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10 April 2006
Tsotsi: Social redemption or sentimentality?
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Eric Ray
Tsotsi: Written and directed by Gavin Hood, based on the book by Athol Fugard. Running time: 94 minutes.

Tsotsi, the recent Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, is currently playing at the Drexel East Theater. The film...
29 March 2006
V for Vendetta: A for Anarchy
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Marion Schneider
Hollywood’s latest blockbuster V for Vendetta, another comic book adaptation, is the cause to commotion and ongoing discussions. Praised as an anti-authoritarian action film on the one hand, criticized for it’s recasting of current...
23 March 2006
V For Vendetta: An anti-authoritarian action film
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Eric Ray
"V For Vendetta"
Directed by James McTeigue
Written by Andy and Larry Wachowski
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore
Running Time, 132 mins

With the recent wave of films addressing the worldwide...
22 March 2006
Why We Fight
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Eric Ray
"Why We Fight"
Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Running time: 98 mins.

It is mentioned in the film’s tagline that “it is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.” One interview subject points out the...
19 March 2006
“Murdered By Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left”
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John Storhm
“Murdered By Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left”
by John Ross (Nation Books, 2004)

In his most recent book, author John Ross combines the fire of Edward Abbey with the rampaging...
26 February 2006
Confessions of an economic hit man
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James A. Lucas
A couple of days ago I was part of  a group that met at the Dayton International Peace Museum to discuss John Perkins’ book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” in which he relates his role in convincing various poor nations to accept...

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