Noah Berlatsky

1 week ago | prismreports.org | Noah Berlatsky

Thousands marched through Chicago’s streets on May 1, in a day of action that in many ways mirrored mass protests in the city months earlier. But in contrast to the march on the Democratic National Convention in August, the May protests were focused on President Donald Trump—and underlined the ways in which the broad antipathy to the current Republican administration has helped unify the left and build bridges to parts of the Democratic Party.

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Noah Berlatsky

Fight or Flight is a lot of fun. || Noah Berlatsky James Madigan’s Fight or Flight is a ridiculous farrago of stale tropes, clichéd characters and plot holes. There are raffish heroes, feisty leading ladies, and the guy who you can tell from the first scene is going to betray everyone does exactly what you think he will. The film has nothing new to say and says it in completely expected ways. It’s a standard Hollywood action movie.

1 week ago | publicnotice.co | Noah Berlatsky

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2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Noah Berlatsky

—It’s a precarious time for independent journalism, and especially for independent journalists who criticize the current fascist nightmare. If you find my writing valuable, please consider helping me keep on keeping on by becoming a paid subscriber. It’s $5/month, $50/year. _The Trump administration is doing so many truly horrific, evil things, it’s difficult to keep up, and difficult to take it all in. Trump is kidnapping people and sending them to El Salvador prison camps without due process.

2 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Noah Berlatsky

De Palma and Cage are a gaudy carny dream team. Brian De Palma’s films are more or less split into scuzzy, lower-budget horny exploitation Hitchcock pastiches—his more personal work—and big-budget mainstream genre exercises. Snake Eyes (1998) is stranded in the middle; a Hollywood action/heist flick that’s not as grimy as De Palma at his grimiest but isn’t as polished as Casualties of War, The Untouchables or his dress-up-for-a-paycheck work.