Racial Violence as Horrific Spectacle: Detroit
American films about race are films about white supremacy and black suffering. Detroit is primarily a film about the latter.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Are you in the mood for cutting edge military surveillance, white-knuckle tension and political intrigue? Then welcome to the best war film since 2009’s Hurt Locker. The plot interconnects disparate players, including politicians, generals and drone pilots in a mission to eliminate a terrorist cell in Kenya. With an insightful look into modern military tactics,…
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Zero Dark Thirty was one of the best films of 2013 (going by Australian release dates), but its relentlessly American point-of-view is arguably a failing. I don’t think that Bigelow’s film unambiguously views Bin Laden’s murder as a success, but the controversy/conversation that developed regarding the film as “pro-torture” was predicated on that very assumption.…
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