Movie/TV Reviews

What George Romero’s Zombie Movie Can Teach Us About the Ukraine War

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Today I’m going to talk about the alleged Russian attack on June 27 against a Ukrainian shopping mall that Zelensky claimed was filled with more than 1,000 shoppers and employees. I’ve seen chatter from both sides about the veracity of these claims, but I’m going to specifically analyze the propaganda value and the talking points it illustrates.

The Matrix Resurrections and the Death of Democracy

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The Matrix Resurrections and the Death of Democracy

The Matrix Resurrections is a boring, sloppy, incoherent mess. But it does offer some valuable cultural insights that we should pay attention to. Despite endlessly talking about “democratic norms” and holding democracy summits, Western liberals don’t like democracy. They actually hate democracy and associate it with weakness, and this attitude is very apparent in their movies.

Threads and the Failure of Satire

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Threads and the Failure of Satire. 1984 BBC Film Threads

I just watched the 1984 BBC docudrama Threads. In many ways, it is typical of a Cold War film at the height of the Red Scare. However, Threads created a new pinnacle of propaganda. The film’s creators deliberately terrorized an entire generation of children and skillfully blurred the lines between truth and fiction. Threads mimics real news reports, presenting a chain of events that are difficult to distinguish from real-life media, especially for a child. Despite all the praise it received in the years since then, Threads is a horrible film that teaches all the wrong lessons, and didn’t even make a nuclear war less likely. If anything, this wave of propaganda has made self-inflicted armageddon more inevitable than ever before.