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The Rowling affair: Our ignorance, narcissism, and neo-Stalinism reflected back at us

JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.
The Mysterians: Yankee go home?

Japanese Mysterians film likely carried an anti-imperialist, anti-American message under standard SF cliches of the era.
Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

The novels of Jane Austen are not great literature for their naïve and narrow conception of the world, which approaches propaganda.
The Glass Key (1942)

Stuart Heisler’s screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammet’s The Glass Key gives us a character study of the noir anti-hero as descended from Eve and the original sin.
Crossfire (1947)

Edward Dmytryk’s 1947 Crossfire courageously attacks the bigotry of antisemitism and, more subtly, homophobia, on a shoestring budget but with outstanding performances.

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The Mysterians: Yankee go home?

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The Glass Key (1942)

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Crossfire (1947)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Laura 1944

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