Donald Trump

Ondi Timoner’s Coming Clean at NAPLES INTERNATIONAL: Film Festival REVIEW: effectively shines a light on the opioid crisis

By Luke Y. Thompson 5 years ago

The focus of Coming Clean is opiates, which, as several talking heads point out, leave a trail of bodies that would be deemed a life-changing national emergency if caused by terrorism, plane crashes, or anything more visual and camera-friendly. Hence, perhaps, all the visual flair Timoner uses to get us watching and listening. And yet, while this seems to be a new problem, it’s not. Oxycontin and Fentanyl constitute a third wave, following those that originated with opium and morphine.

Daniel Lombroso’s WHITE NOISE at HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY Film Fest REVIEW; reminds us who the true deplorables are

By Luke Y. Thompson 5 years ago

There’s a lot of potentially triggering talk in this film, which lets the bad people say what they want to say. So how’s it different from, say, Fox News or AM radio? Mostly in that these people say the quiet parts out loud. Trump may claim to be not politically correct, and say terrible things to rile people up, but even he’s not quite at the low, low level of these fans of his who want full racial separatism at best, civil war at worst.