Barack Obama Archive
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‘Citizenfour’: Sound the alarm
Posted on October 21, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com What is most astonishing, as you watch Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour,” is how calm everyone is. At least at first. The next most astonishing thing? How quietly rational all these […] -
Steven Spielberg’s Obama reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 1, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White The worst Steven Spielberg production ever is, without doubt, his Obama homage, Steven Spielberg’s Obama. Unlike his disingenuous Obama-in-disguise campaign feature film, Lincoln, this two-minute satirical short […] -
‘Grassroots,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com There’s a certain rowdy spirit to Stephen Gyllenhaal’s “Grassroots,” now playing in limited release, that gives the fact-based comedy-drama a surprising vitality for a movie that seems so schematic. […] -
‘Pariah,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com One of the intriguing phenomena of the 2008 election was the fact that, while African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama for president, that surge of black voters at the […]