Cover 9/11 and the Unconstitutional, Imperialistic, Brutal Aspects of Iraq War

"...the neo-cons to loot our treasury, to destroy our civil liberties, and to embark on an extremely dangerous and..."

April 26, 2005 Postmarks

Another Drug War Casualty

Testimony continues this week in the capital murder trial of 23-year-old Edwin Delamora, accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Travis County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Ruiz in February 2001.

"...is this: Was Ruiz just another casualty of a war on drugs that's impossible to win?..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Civil Action

Preview of Place 3 City Council Race

"...interests in common, and I am gratified by the civil tone of the race. I hope we can run..."

May 3, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

WilCo Budget War Goes to Appeals Court

Constable, county at odds over timing and legality of funding cuts

"...Griffin temporarily redeployed his deputies from mental-health calls to warrants and civil papers, after Commissioner Lisa Birkman subjected him..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Trapped and the War on Women's Health Care

Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South

"...the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, scoring the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. Having previously focused on the..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

SXSW Eco: The Culture War to Save the World

Punk, hip-hop and literature sign up for the eco fight

"...Caucus has four tenets – strengthening democracy, climate change, civil and human rights, and economic empowerment. Those four issues..."

Oct. 9, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Imagine There Is an Unending War

"...the entropic center of a Third World religious and civil conflict. Imagine the new Iraqi parliament can’t agree on..."

Feb. 5, 2007 Postmarks

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...and bad days," merely "a moment in Iraq's path towards a free and democratic system." More recently, the president..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

Field Trip

Ben Wheatley's historical horror tackles the English Civil War

"...dispatched by his master into the scalding cauldron of war to track down O'Neill, a mysterious Irishman (played with..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Free State of Jones

Matthew McConaughey stars in pic about little-known Civil War event

"...Newton Knight, a medic for the Confederacy during the Civil War when he deserts and returns home to Jones..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emancipation

Will Smith's stunning Civil War drama is a B-movie in award-bait clothes

"...– and suddenly those naturalistic images are replaced by awkward composite photography, with men and women dotting the landscape..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Journey

Settling peace in Northern Ireland?

"...a stalemate around the turn of the century. The civil war pitted the country’s Presbyterian Loyalists to England against..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freetown

The director of The Saratov Approach is back with another true Mormon epic

"...be preaching the gospel in Monrovia, Liberia, just as civil war breaks out in 1989...."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Marvel's crime caper comedy sequel gets bigger, smaller, but still fun

"...How do you recover from Avengers: Infinity War? Audiences are still a little tenderized after the mass..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Pecos National Historic Site

Travel tips for the Land of Enchantment

"...the most famous trade route in the Southwest, a Civil War battleground, and the summer home of a Hollywood..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Thor: Ragnarok

The Marvel Universe's funniest movie to date

"...off having a very ugly divorce in Captain America: Civil War, turns out Thor (Hemsworth) and the Incredible Hulk..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca

"...Directed by: Marcos Zurinaga. Starring: Andy Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeroen Krabbe and..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sommersby

"...uprooted to Reconstruction-era Tennessee in the period following the Civil War. There's a certain naïveté intrinsic to this story..."

Feb. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Journey From the Fall

The fall of the title refers to the fall of Saigon – which is just the beginning for these Vietnamese characters whose stories of re-education camps, exile, and relocation are movingly portrayed in this drama.

"...left South Vietnam for good. For Americans, the Vietnam War ends there, with those last frenzied images of the..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bosna!

"...Szapolowska. Bosna! is an impassioned polemic about the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The voiceover narration by French..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deadly Currents

"...for delegates attending recent Middle East peace negotiations, and awarded the Grand Prix at the 23rd International Documentary Festival..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Last Men in Aleppo

Picking up the pieces of the Syrian Civil War

"...rubble and desperation as a result of the Syrian Civil War. President Bashar al-Assad’s bombing campaign against resistant pockets..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Whipping Man

City Theatre travels unexplored territory in this Civil War drama in which both slaves and masters are Jewish

"...manor, observing Passover is not easy. Four years of war have left Richmond depleted of goods, and this once-stately..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan

This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.

"...since childhood from their villages in the south of war-torn Sudan. After wandering sub-Saharan Africa on the brink of..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Blood Diamond

This action-packed take on the issue of blood diamonds is an example of social critique masquerading as cineplex fodder.

"...Directed by: Edward Zwick. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Arnold..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Backbone

Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.

"...into an orphanage cum fallout shelter as the Spanish Civil War rips apart the neighboring countryside. (The charming ensemble..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Barb Wire

"...Directed by: David Hogan. Starring: Pamela Anderson Lee, Clint Howard, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Steve Railsback and Udo Kier...."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sword of Trust

Marc Maron like you've never seen him in this oddball Southern road trip to the truth

"...This marvelous gem of a comedy about a Civil War sword of dubious origin gently tickles the ribs,..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Chi-Raq

Spike Lee has his finger on our gun-crazy moment in history

"...2003 sex strike in Liberia helped end that country’s civil war. Lysistrata is the girlfriend of rapper and Spartan..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Keeping Room

Slow-burn thriller is a Western with a feminist slant

"...South on fire in the waning years of the Civil War. It is 1865, and Moses (Worthington) and Henry..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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