Film Critic Michael Snyder talks about “Neruda” a new movie examining Chile’s communist poet Pablo Neruda. “Neruda” follows an inspector hunting down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Writer: Guillermo Calderón
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro
In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned that for security and liberty to prosper together, “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” Forty-five years later, a new president is planning to have his Pentagon run by a top official at one of the world’s largest…
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A moving documentary about the fragility of life and the endurance of love.
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Rose Guidel was in trouble. It was 2009 and the United States was in the grips of the Great Recession. Her brother, who had helped pay the mortgage on her modest home outside of Los Angeles, had been murdered, so she contacted her bank to say her payment would be late. The bank apparently told her…
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Far from ending with President-elect Trump’s announcement that he will separate himself from the management of his business empire, the constitutional debate about the meaning of the Emoluments Clause — and whether Trump will be violating it — is likely just beginning. That’s because the Emoluments Clause seems to bar Trump’s ownership of his business. It…
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Frank Conniff, Dave Sirus and David discuss the merits of a recount. At one point in today’s episode, David threatens to storm off his own show. Sadly he didn’t.