Our Obama Era Cinema series continues with Caspar Salmon reflecting on the vitriolic online backlash to recent progress in Hollywood casting.
Director Anthony Baxter takes an ineffectual swipe at potential world leader and heartless golf course builder, The Donald.
In our latest Obama Era Cinema essay, Stephen Winter considers the impact of two controversial role reversal fantasies.
How a handful of filmmakers and a simple hashtag turned stories of African-American oppression into a national concern.
How might President Barack Obama’s famous speech have looked had it been co-written by a certain James Franco?
Each of the Arkansas director’s films addresses pressing social concerns affecting working-class white voters.
By Vadim Rizov
Vadim Rizov considers the mainstream appeal of a trilogy of proudly racist films by one of conservative America’s most potent voices.
The War Dogs director talks truth, Trump and why laughter will always be the best medicine.
By Taylor Burns
Robert Altman’s Secret Honor contains the single greatest portrayal of the disgraced former US President.
How two early ’90s documentaries exposed the media machinery that helps determine US elections.
By Anton Bitel
The Green Room director offers some sage advice on how to ride the wave of your first indie hit.
By Henry Heffer
Will Ferrell’s casting as Ronald Reagan got us thinking of other memorable POTUS portrayals in the movies.
How the movies forecast everything from celebrity politics to the rise of social media.
The upcoming horror threequel looks to tap into the current US political climate.
The beloved Looney Toon is set to make his big screen bow courtesy of Warner Bros.
Is the alt-right giving rise to a new generation of Travis Bickles?
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