[...] What if the "problem" is neither genetic nor psychological, but social? For what did "women trapped in a male body" do three hundred years ago? Maybe they expanded the social category of what it is to be male so that it was expansive enough to include the "female" traits they longed for.
[...] a story that in book form was an act of fury and lit a fire under the Thatcher-era kids who read it. Its message was not "Blow up the Houses of Parliament" or "Wear a white mask and knife people," for kids are not morons and understand what an allegory is. The message of V for Vendetta is "…
Gaghan's talent is for Marxist explication, demonstrating how one transaction contains within it elements of the entire system it supports.
about Syriana
a glowing review of a fine piece of agitprop leftist cinema
on George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck