I think of the Google A.I. Overview as Vizzini from The Princess Bride

How do movies function as political rhetoric and shape the way we think, feel, and behave? Would this make them "propaganda" and can propaganda ever be good?

Join us to screen an all-time great Hollywood classic and discuss its ongoing relevance for today's political context.

Can a Hollywood movie help us think through ethical issues such as, "How much of my own comfortable life should I sacrifice to stand up to creeping authoritarianism? Are personal romantic relationships possible in such a time as this?"

Cinema of Resistance is a public offering from the OB Cinema Circle, a group of neighbors from the Ocean Beach area of San Diego who gather to watch movies together and share our love of cinema. If you're an Obecean cinephile and want to join the private group, let me know!

Our public screening license prevents us from publicizing the film titles, but we can tell you that this month we will screen an Oscar-winning drama about the death penalty and discuss issues of Restorative Justice with our panel of experts. See more info and sign up at the Eventbrite link above.

Thanks! I have enjoyed everything I've read from Critchley, but I don't have this one. I'll check it out. 👍

I’m talking more Stewart’s soy boy screen persona vs Wayne’s rugged masculinity. Off camera i know they had similar politics

4/4 Even if gangster horror musicals like #Sinners are not to your personal taste, you have to admit it’s an interesting time to live in where #film is seriously addressing the issue of race on this level — and audiences are buying it!

3/4 this #film is about the “sinners” who reject both forms of Christianity in favor of true Black liberation which #RyanCoogler suggests can only be achieved by financial independence from White cultural power structures.

2/4 a Christianity that either teaches Black people to silently endure the KKK while singing songs about going to Heaven someday — or else calls Black people to assimilate to liberal monoculture and lose their unique racial identity.