"While we have many great documentaries telling the story of the global water wars, including this year’s Flow and Blue Gold, one is forced to wonder if 007 does a greater service to the water movement than even our most highly talented documentarians. After all, who better than Hollywood to characterize the greenwashing corporate water profiteers as straight up evil, sans the need to justify the hyperbole?"
Jeff Conant reviews Quantum of Solace in Upside Down World.
''KANGAMBA is one of the most serious and dramatic films I have ever seen. ...When a film even more dramatic than Kangamba is made, film history will show even more impressive episodes where the massive heroism of Cubans and Angolans shone until apartheid was defeated in humiliation."
Fidel Castro reflects on Kangamba, the Cuban film by Rogelio Paris and Jorge Fuentes.
Pragoti editorial team's Subhanil Chowdhury reviews A Wednesday in our weekly feature of film reviews.
Pragoti editorial team's Srinivasan Ramani contributes to our feature of film reviews with a review of Aakrosh, Govind Nihalani's debut film.
Pragoti editorial team's Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya starts off our new weekly feature of film reviews with his insightful review of the cult American film, Bonnie and Clyde. Each Monday we propose to upload a film review written from the perspective of radical left politics. Watch this space as you watch your movies!
Despite having a few liberal pangs, The Dark Knight not only fails to truthfully deal with these issues, but embraces the worst sort of right-wing vigilantism packaged in some of the best filmmaking available in Hollywood.
Director Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," currently on track to be the biggest box-office smash of the year and maybe of all time, crosses a line that perhaps did not need to be crossed, the fantasy-into-reality line.