From the March 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard Like Michael Moore’s other films, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story‘, is brilliant in its way, hard-hitting and funny. He strips away the lies and hypocrisy of “public relations” propaganda to expose the ruthless predators who dominate our society and profit from the misery of working people. And at […]

Film Review from the March 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner is based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns, and has another acting tour de force by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th US president. Kushner’s political thriller, set in […]

Film Review of Sir! No Sir! from the March 2007 Socialist Standard David Zeigler’s documentary Sir! No Sir! looks back on the movement within the military to end the Vietnam War, interviewing a wide range of soldiers who participated in the anti-war movement while in uniform or after returning from Vietnam This important history was subsequently forgotten, or more precisely, […]