Capitalism and Michael Moore

A short review of Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' over at the Socialism Or Your Money Back blog.

Apparently the review is going to be distributed as a leaflet when the film gets a nationwide release in the UK at the end of this month.

November Spawned A Roster

Same deal as the last post, so I'll spare you the schtick this one time. Some articles and other sundry stuff of note from November 2006 on the Socialist Standard MySpace page:

From the November 2006 Socialist Standard, a review of Benjamin Franks's 'Rebel Alliances': Anarchism in Britain Today

Centenery editorial from the September 2004 issue of the Socialist Standard: The Challenge of a Better Future

From the October 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard: Jack Common and Working Class Writing

Selected passages from "Philoren's" 1943 pamphlet, 'Money Must Go': Money Must Go

Film Review from the December 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard: An Inconvenient Truth

From the Socialism Or Your Money Back blog: Rendition To Torture

Check out the link for 17 other pieces from that month.

Bloggers Block + Six Web Pages of Separation = Random Recommended Links

Following on from Shiraz Socialist's Jim D recent admission of his love for the good/bad film, Galaxy Quest, I thought I'd point you in the direction of a blog post about Walter Hill's 1984 musical mishap, 'Streets of Fire'.

Nope I can't remember it either, but coming on the back of the brilliant 'Warriors' and the underrated '48 Hours', it was Walter Hill's 'John Squire Moment' . . . the cinematic equivalent of the Stone Roses second album and subsequent risible recordings with The Seahorses all rolled into one.

To come crashing down in such a magisterial fashion brings 'losing the creative plot' to a whole new level, but nine times out of ten will eventually result in blog posts 20 odd years after the fact where budding Roger Eberts' will make the case for the film's rehabilitation. Early nineties through the night tv has a lot to answer for.

'Streets of Fire' is not to be confused with that other musical mishap of the 1980s, 'Hearts of Fire'. The latter film falls into the bad/bad film category, and also provides the explanation for why Bob Dylan failed as many as six auditions for a role in Todd Haynes's latest film, 'I'm Not There'.

On a life support

The SPGB's blog, Socialism Or Your Money Back, has finally got round to reviewing Michael Moore's 'Sicko':

The American Patient

Next month will see an exclusive review of Dr Finlay's Casebook.