Nostalgia comes with the territory of a celebrity biopic. This is mostly true when the film’s subject is or was a well known personality whose notoriety was concurrent with one’s younger days and whose success and very public failure and fall from grace was grist for the mill of the evening news and daytime talk…
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Documentary film review: Fahrenheit 11/9
If there were a prize to award to a filmmaker who could correctly assess, diagnose, provide an accurate etiology and prognosis if corrective action is not taken by a community or group of people, there is but one recipient who could win it outright multiple times over. There are few in the business who can…
Continue ReadingMovie review: Darkest Hour
“Never, never, never give up!”—–Sir Winston Churchill I recall reading a fair amount about Winston Churchill in my secondary and post secondary history courses but most of the information contained in the required readings dealt more with his statesman’s acts as Britain’s Prime Minister and his dealings with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. I do not…
Continue ReadingThe United States of Oceania?
We have survived into the second week of President Trump’s America and to say this has been a newsworthy few days is an understatement. In just over one week there have been over a dozen Presidential Executive Orders including some that impose unconstitutional overreach on specific segments of the population. Through it all, the President…
Continue ReadingDocumentary Film Review: TrumpLand
A mere eleven days before the 2016 General Election, the latest work of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore opened at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema. In TrumpLand, Mr. Moore focuses little on the GOP candidate himself and mostly on the the voters who support him and why. He also thoroughly discusses the history of Hillary Rodham Clinton and…
Continue ReadingDocumentary Film Review: Eat That Question–Frank Zappa in his own words
Ever since that magical time in my youth when I acquired an eclectic taste for not only his music but the dark humor and excoriating social commentary of Frank Zappa, I have often retreated into my happy place where I keep my personal altar to one of my favorite musical and messaging geniuses. Of all…
Continue ReadingDocumentary film review: A Better Life
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, you all no doubt recall how often I enjoy writing glowing testimonials of the venues, enclaves, social organizations and events that make living along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 tolerable for people like us. I had another such opportunity…
Continue ReadingMovie review: Free State of Jones
There is nothing that succeeds better at debunking popular mythology like using a seemingly far fetched but true story to do it. In light all the recent hoopla over how a certain former battlefield standard was all about “heritage not hate,” it would behoove all who bought that load of nonsense without question to do…
Continue ReadingDocumentary film review: Oklahoma Shakedown
Collateral damage. Booming economy. The price we pay for doing business. These were sentiments expressed by certain parties in the course of the documentary film, Oklahoma Shakedown. Film maker Taylor Lee Mullins was on hand with one of the activists appearing in his film, Angela Spotts, at Circle Cinema on Tuesday evening for a free…
Continue ReadingMovie review: Where To Invade Next
How do we make America great again? We do things that will upset the order and control of corporate conformity, worry less about making all the money possible and return to simple original Yankee ideas that made America the place everyone wanted to be in the first place. Michael Moore’s entire premise is not a…
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