Movies Monday: The Death of Stalin

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 12, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to Read: Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived “black comedy” By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on March 9, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’: By Manhola DargAis in The New York Times on March 8, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The Death of Stalin Movie Review by Glenn Kenny on the Roger Ebert website on March 9, 2018.

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A Yiddish World Remembered

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to View: Trailer for A Yiddish World Remembered (2002) on YouTube.

90th Academy Awards: Banal, conformist and 10,000 miles from reality

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 6, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to Read: 90th Academy Awards:Banal, conformist and 10,000 miles from reality By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on March 6, 2018.

Greg in Hollywood (Greg Hernandez). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

What ‘The Post’ Misses About Kay Graham

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 5, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to Read: What ‘The Post’ Misses About Kay Graham: The real publisher was far more complicated—and more interesting—than Steven Spielberg’s version lets on By Carol Felsenthal on the Political website on March 04, 2018.

What’s It Really About – Reynolds & Alma’s Perverse Feeding Game?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to Read: What’s It Really About – Reynolds & Alma’s Perverse Feeding Game? by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch Blog on March 1, 2018.

A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Film

Click Here to Read: A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts: On the return of ‘The Boys in the Band’ and why it matters more than ever By Jesse Green in The New York Times on February 26, 2018.

How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?: In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion by Martin Kremer on the Mosaic website on March 1 2018.

A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Albion (R07) to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike. Visible on deck are De Havilland Sea Venoms of 809 Naval Air Squadron, and Hawker Sea Hawks from 800 and 802 NAS. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.