The Road to Wigan Pier

Despite its focus on the bleak lives of English coal miners in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier, with its live music, film, and skits, is a ridiculous amount of fun

"...charting the tumultuous relationship between England's government and its coal-mining industry throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It's a..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

The Hightower Lowdown

PG&E's shell game, Bush Incorporated & Nestle's genetic engineering

"...be number two at the Interior Department, which oversees mining on public lands, Bush picked J. Steven Griles, a..."

June 15, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

A Taste of Summer

Summer Food Essays: A Pinch of Recollection, A Dash of Tradition

"...year), and there isn't any sustainable industry, save coal mining. It's also hard to get to; the closest major..."

July 14, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Neighborhood Watch

"...quite a bit of the history of the anti-strip mining movement. I was shocked to find that even activists..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...apparently won. When Bre-X Minerals, a small Calgary, Alberta-based mining company, found the gigantic Busang deposit on the island..."

Feb. 21, 1997 News Feature

Out-Gunned?

Sierra Blanca Dump Proponents Divide and Multiply

"...environment, from overfishing to overgrazing." He points out that mining companies are still getting huge subsidies from federal taxpayers..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Chronicle Sues OPIC

Weekly Seeks Records On Insurance Cancellation

"...political risk insurance policy on Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold's mining operation in Irian Jaya, Indonesia...."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Freeport's Motherlode

The Feds Undress Jim Bob

"...as saying that the pollution coming from his company's mining operation in Irian Jaya, Indonesia was "equivalent to me..."

Nov. 10, 1995 News Feature

Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhang-ke’s latest is a love story with time’s passage in mind

"...faces of old men on the streets of a mining community, that Caught by the Tides is most striking...."

May 23, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Popeye The Slayer Man

Newly entered into the public domain, the spinach-loving sailor gets mined for horror

"...Relucio and Steven McCormack. The horror movie trend of mining iconic characters who have newly entered the public domain..."

March 21, 2025 Movie Review

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Colonialism, the Cold War, and jazz collide in engrossing documentary

"...product shots – two companies called out for questionable mining practices in the present-day DRC – Soundtrack doesn’t need..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel

"...and standing in for Detroit is a remote, sunless mining colony run by the eternally evil Weyland-Yutani Corporation...."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Immaculate

Sydney Sweeney excels in just-OK nun horror

"...Neon horror Immaculate understands this on a basic level. Mining such rich material, director Michael Mohan and screenwriter Andrew..."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Io Capitano

Despite strong performances, migrant tale is broadly told

"...whole system of exploiters, opportunists, cutthroats, and torturers strip mining human dignity for profit, sprinkled with just enough benevolent..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

YA epic's prequel can't catch the book's inner fire

"...Lucy Gray (Zegler) from District 12, the same Appalachia-like coal-mining country Katniss Everdeen will call home a half-century later...."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Royal Hotel

Disturbing trip to the sexist outback is cut short by a simplistic ending

"...resort to taking a bar job in a remote mining community. "You're gonna have to be OK with a..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

ERCOT Paid Bitcoin Miner $31 Million to Conserve While Texans Sweat

Bitcoin operations paid by ERCOT to conserve

"...recent New York Times investigation found that 10 bitcoin mining operations in Texas have accounted for ratepayers’ electric bills..."

Sept. 7, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Meg 2: The Trench

It's Jason Statham versus a giant, ancient shark again

"...most disengaged) can be trapped on an abandoned underwater mining base along with his adopted daughter, Meiying (Cai), and..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wild Life

Biography of the millionaires saving millions of acres of mountains

"...upward class mobility through continued industrialization – specifically the mining of two of Chile’s most abundant resources, copper and..."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Murder at Yellowstone City

Horse opera is just a sturdy, well-worn mule trail

"...The mining town of Yellowstone City has seen better days. An..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mothering Sunday

Literary adaptation charts doomed romance between classes

"...The writer mining her past for inspiration here is Jane Fairchild (Young),..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Compartment No. 6

Strangers on a train form a tense bond in this Finnish drama

"...to the Murmask region to check out a prospective mining job. He’s an obnoxious bore who drinks cheap vodka..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Antlers

Del Toro-endorsed creature feature is stylish but empty

"...themes, a folkloric creature feature set in a dying mining town along the Oregon coast. The setting is everything..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Still Life

Jia Zhangke’s 2006 masterpiece on a changing China finally reaches America

"...building of the Three Gorges Dam. Jia utilizes his coal-mining brother, Han Sanming, as the protagonist to tell this..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Earth

Documentary about how we reshape the land digs deep but maybe too wide

"...intriguing. Take the diversion to discuss the history of mining in the Roman Empire: It gives context, and a..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mickey and the Bear

Life on the front line of the opioid crisis

"...another victim of the toxic legacy of the copper mining and smelting that had been Anaconda’s lifeblood since the..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Whistleblower

Chinese thriller uncovers business corruption

"...woman (Tang) working in Australia who finds that the mining company she works for may be responsible for a..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail

"...the map as a result of aggressive open-pit coal mining. The film’s stunning visuals of these and other impacted..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Toy Story 4

Fourth verse, first as the first, second, third as the adventures of Woody and Buzz continue

"...must surely be a point of pride: Its light mining of horror tropes. (Baby’s first jump scare! Also: Ventriloquist..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hotel by the River

Semi-improvised South Korean family drama is as much about pauses as what it spoken

"...prolific output and a predilection for an obsession in mining the comedic depths of the relationships we hold in..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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