Matthew PuddisterBourgeoisie Increasingly Unable to Hide Contempt for DemocracyWith elections taking place in countries representing more than 40% of the world’s population, 2024 has been dubbed the “year of elections”…Aug 31Aug 31
Matthew PuddisterDeadpool & Wolverine (2024)The plot of Deadpool & Wolverine is incoherent nonsense, but it doesn’t really matter. Representing the official entry of Wade…Aug 7Aug 7
Matthew PuddisterU.S. Congress Worships Netanyahu in Obscene Celebration of Mass MurderThis week’s grotesque spectacle in Washington, in which a joint session of Congress clapped like trained seals and gave a record 58…Jul 26Jul 26
Matthew PuddisterOver the Top (1987)I went into Over the Top expecting a movie about arm-wrestling truckers, with a subplot about a father trying to win back his son’s love…Jul 13Jul 13
Matthew PuddisterPompeii (2014)The blueprints of James Cameron’s Titanic, mixed with elements of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, are all over would-be historical romance and…Jul 10Jul 10
Matthew PuddisterLionheart (1990)Jean-Claude Van Damme showed audiences his softer, more compassionate side in Lionheart, which has made it a favourite among many female…Jul 9Jul 9
Matthew PuddisterWhy Should We Feel ‘Patriotic’ for a Genocidal Capitalist State?“The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. The working men have no country. We cannot take…Jul 24Jul 24
Matthew PuddisterDeath Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) comes back for one last vigilante killing spree in Death Wish V: The Face of Death, and sad to say, it’s…Jul 1Jul 1
Matthew PuddisterDeath Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)Charles Bronson joins the Reagan-era “war on drugs” in the fourth instalment of the Death Wish series, which in terms of plot comes off…Jun 29Jun 29
Matthew PuddisterFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)“As the world falls around us, how must we brave its cruelties?” — The History ManJun 241Jun 241