Reading Time: 4 minutes When a prominent scholar of 20th Century fascism and the Holocaust sounds the alarm, it’s time to pay heed.
Andrew Spitznas
SECULAR CINEPHILE
Movies have been a lifelong consuming passion, with vivid childhood memories of staying up late for James Bond on TV and standing in line for the original Star Wars movie. I still watch the occasional multiplex blockbuster, but nowadays, my enthusiasm tends towards arthouse fare and thoughtful documentaries. Happiness is an audience Q&A at a film festival.
I strive to look at cinema through a secular humanist lens, with an eye towards social justice, equality, and life without a religious crutch. As a practicing psychiatrist for a quarter-century, I also love to explore psychological themes in movies.
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Suspense, Horror, Comedy, and Social Commentary Blend Masterfully in “Get Out”
Reading Time: 4 minutes This first turn behind the camera for Jordan Peele, of “Key and Peele” fame, is unambiguously triumphant.
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Available Now for Home Viewing, “13th” Is a Painful but Necessary Look at the History of Black Dehumanization in America
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you pick one movie to watch before you vote, please choose this documentary by “Selma” director Ana DuVernay.
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Fixated on Ethnic Apocalypse in “The Hateful Eight”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quentin Tarantino is stuck in a thematic rut, even if his eighth film is as aesthetically accomplished as usual.
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The Best Films of 2015
Reading Time: 9 minutes Plus, three indispensable books for any freethinker’s bookshelf
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Something Old, Something New, Something Recycled in “Spectre”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Despite its occasional “been there, done that” feel, this is still the most satisfying Bond outing since “GoldenEye.”
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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” A Freethinker’s Playground of Feminist History and Ideas
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mary Dore’s excellent documentary briskly and exuberantly captures the early years of second-wave American feminism.