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Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Jan 26, 2008 A searing and earnest drama delving into the tragic, short life of the late George Jackson, sixties US political prisoner, LA Black Panther spiritual and intellectual guiding force, and fierce leader within the Black prison movement. Go to Full Review Black August (2007) - - 75%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 21, 2007 A Hollywood hotshot played by Morgan Freeman, befriends a supermarket cashier just so he can get familiar enough with acting like somebody poor, to get into character for his next movie, and the effort fails miserably. Go to Full Review 10 Items or Less (2006) 64% 62%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 10, 2007 This slice of quirky life story about a classy, unattainable suit in a store window, is one classy movie as well, ennobling its host of eccentric and tragic, yet determined and struggling, vividly realized characters. Go to Full Review DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006) 70% 84%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 9, 2007 A scathing documentary baring a nation into deep denial about lingering buried injustices and inequities which rose to the surface exposed to the light of day, in the wake of the Katrina floods. Go to Full Review Desert Bayou (2007) 78% 59%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 8, 2007 This shamelessly uncritical view of Golda, her world perspective, and the period of Middle Eastern history over which she presided as a major player, confuses the protagonist's point of view with the reality. Grandmother or godfather? Go to Full Review Golda's Balcony (2007) 63% 57%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 7, 2007 A disturbing, mesmerizing thriller, recounting the real life plight of a remote coastal New Zealand village in the grip of a nearly invisible, deadly force, eccentric and angry recluse turned serial killer, David Gray. Go to Full Review Out of the Blue (2006) 84% 82%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 5, 2007 Moving as flawlessly and gracefully across the movie screen as the snow on its mute, chilly Scottish landscape, the film inspires amazement and awe as the work of novice director, Alan Rickman. Go to Full Review The Winter Guest (1997) 63% 75%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Oct 5, 2007 The bottom line is acting out sexual urges and fantasies normally acceptable only in male characters, as the actress philosophizes with an assortment of cocks, determined to 'rape myself,' in a clinical orgy with a roomful of aspiring young gynecologists. Go to Full Review Romance (1999) 49% 46%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 30, 2007 A lone voice caught in solo flight, the results range from hypnotic and eloquent to infuriatingly arrogant and self-indulgent. But somewhere in between are glimpses of a transient soul passing through a painful planet, seeking an elusive Nirvana. Go to Full Review Kurt Cobain About a Son (2006) 74% 78%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 30, 2007 Ecological disaster meets greed and a desperate bid for human salvation, in this metaphorical meditation on the forecast apocalyptic doom of America. Go to Full Review Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) 94% 86%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 29, 2007 Much more than just your basic sadistic horror thriller, The Girl Next Door redefines the notion of guilty pleasure as raw and potent allegory, and corrective to the US culture of conformist collective complicity. Go to Full Review The Girl Next Door (2007) 67% 61%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 29, 2007 One would anticipate the crafting of a sinister satire here, but the film is dead serious and overidentified with Cowboy Cupid's boastful, smirking posturing. A camera in the hand of a director should be more than just a piece of surveillance equipment. Go to Full Review Cowboy del Amor (2005) 70% 47%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 29, 2007 Keating makes the case that a Giuliani presidency would be an exceedingly bad idea, juxtaposing the politician's public persona and veneer of fake charm, with his vicious dark side that periodically peers through. Go to Full Review Giuliani Time (2005) 84% 74%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 29, 2007 While this misleading doc lauds neo-conquistador Eisenhower for coining and anticipating the military industrial complex, let's not forget how he propagated something else - the CIA extra-legal tactic of target assassinations. Go to Full Review Why We Fight (2005) 78% 88%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 28, 2007 The director happens to know the often maligned subject of mental illness well from his own childhood as the son of a psychotic mother, and he embraces it with genuine feeling, emotional spontaneity and absence of consciously formulated dramatic pretense. Go to Full Review Canvas (2006) 77% 62%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 27, 2007 A timely wakeup call - Kurtz's own '5/11' as he terms his personal nightmare - to remind us just how dangerous and threatening the terrorism of the US government is right now, towards its own people. Go to Full Review Strange Culture (2007) 91% 59%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 27, 2007 This documentary touching on both the historical evolution and contemporary phenomenon of mercenaries feels uncomfortably like a promotional campaign for private security firms, as they're more euphemistically termed. Go to Full Review Shadow Company (2006) 80% 85%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 21, 2007 Masterfully focuses a keen eye on the misogynistic convergence of entrenched private emotional exploitation of women, and their objectification in public entertainment. Bravo, Claude, a rare man in profound touch with the darker impulses of his species. Go to Full Review A Girl Cut in Two (2007) 73% 37%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 12, 2007 In a film that just happens to be about the topic of fabric, Silk like a mannequin draped in an elegant costume, is all shimmering surface and hollow core. Go to Full Review Silk (2007) 7% 29%

Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 12, 2007 A metaphorical training bra for ogling boys - along with second childhood Dirty Old Aged men - DOA gives new meaning to females hooking up and hanging out, when it comes to airborne upper body intimate wear and its gravity defying plastic contents alike Go to Full Review D.O.A.: Dead or Alive (2006) 32% 36%