Brilliant cold war satire, Kubrick's greatest film, brilliant performances from Hayden, Scott & Sellers etc- though apparently Reagan modelled his war room on the one here!

There is a reason for the adjective 'Capraesque'...

The final part of Pakula's 70s paranoia trilogy that began with Klute, moved onto The Parallax View & had relatives like The Conversation, Chinatown & Network that reflected the political climes...

Oliver Stone's potent coming of age regarding U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, notably El Salvador. The title translates as 'Saviour.'

Sharp satire that predicts an right-wing idiot running for president armed with a dubious morality....

A film that is read in other ways following the recent U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq for fictional reasons. Witness how Bush Senior left buddy Saddam in power & fought a war to free Kuwaiti oil..

It has problems- like Gandhi, it's perhaps a little too reverential- but a brave film anyway & one that Lee relates to the contemporary age in which it was made..

Stone's recent documentary on Fidel Castro; I would like to see the Arafat docu also and wonder if that could help change U.S. policy regarding Israel (the bail out veto regardless...)

This one was a bit overlooked due to the Clinton-Lewinsky headlines at the time....

Like The West Wing, this is a utopian take on Democrats in power. Entertaining like The West Wing, but the kind of gutless idealism that doesn't help anything.

Apparently this was one of Dubya's favourite films- an idiot finds himself president. Now why would that ring a bell?

Mamet-scripted, nicely acted, but a bit of a letdown really....

Part of the U.S.' so-called culture wars. Gibson's horror-film is balm for the christian right in the U.S. & is very, very silly. Watch Pasolini's Christ film instead....