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Michael Atkinson

- Culture
- 05 Nov 08
Moore Than You or Me

Slacker Uprising offers nothing new, but it will be worth something if it affects November's election

vol. 32, iss. 11 film, michael moore, slacker uprising
- Culture
- 13 May 08
Errol Morris’ Myopia

Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema… more

vol. 32, iss. 06
- Culture
- 24 Jul 07
Iraq: Mismanagement or Mass Murder?

No End in Sight explores how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control

vol. 31, iss. 08 iraq, movies
- Culture
- 06 Jun 06
Iraq on the Big Screen

Who should define what a war is "about"? By any ethical standard, that right should fall to the… more

vol. 30, iss. 06 art culture, iraq war, movies
- Culture
- 27 Sep 05
When We Were Psychos

In 1969, news of the My Lai massacre hit the American press and gave the already-queasy stateside citizenry… more

vol. 29, iss. 22 war and peace
- Culture
- 03 Jun 05
Look Out, It’s Real!

"Look out, Haskell, it's real!," shouts a crew member, in the watershed moment from Haskell Wexler's 1969 seminal… more

vol. 29, iss. 14
- Culture
- 26 Nov 04
Helping Themselves

There may not be a more thoroughly ravaged national economy on the planet than Argentina’s—it’s a poster child… more

vol. 29, iss. 01 economy, international, movies, south america
- Culture
- 21 Oct 04
Swan Song of the Century

Now, Johnny Ramone is dead. Like a chilling, not-so-funny answer to Spinal Tap—the fictional rock band whose drummers… more

vol. 28, iss. 25
- Culture
- 16 Sep 04
Stranger Than Fiction

Seems simple now: Observe as a cabal of Christian billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country,… more

vol. 28, iss. 23
- Culture
- 31 Aug 04
Spin’s the Thing

How much credit, exactly, does Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 paranoid-nation classic The Manchurian Candidate get… more

vol. 28, iss. 21
- Culture
- 20 Jul 04
When Yes Means No

The worst of times, the best of times: Sure, our nation is in the hands of a federal… more

vol. 28, iss. 18
- Culture
- 21 May 04
Counter Cultural Programming

The November firefight approaches and here we are, awash in a media flashflood of press secretary prevarication, corporate… more

vol. 28, iss. 14 social justice