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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING The Awakening In 1921 England Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a best-selling author...

The Fed is completely full of shit. It is terrified of the conditions it has set up and it has no idea what to do next. The “data” that it claims to be so dependent on is arrantly fake. An interest rate rise of one percent, would drive the annual US...

The US presidential election is in 2 days. I think I speak for most everyone when I say: WHEW. THANK ALL RELEVANT DEITIES THIS FUCKING THING IS ALMOST OVER. This election has been a ghastly spectacle—an inescapable carnival of bullshit that has haunted...

May 22 In History 124 BCE :  Simon the Hasmonean, drove the “Greeks” – the Syrians and their Hellenized Jewish allies – out of the citadel which was their last stronghold in Jerusalem. While Jews celebrate Chanukah, it is this victory, 40 years later...

From Ian: Israeli victory is the only way to advance peace process American policy has long been to prevent Israel from achieving a decisive military victory over its adversaries. In 1956, President Eisenhower forced Israel to abandon its territorial...