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The PopMatters 'Short Ends & Leader' Spring Film Preview
In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.
Bill Gibron
01 Mar 2007
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Sir! No Sir! (2006)
Sir! No Sir! uses the personal stories of non-cooperators to argue that it was identification with "the enemy", a recognition of the humanity in individual Vietnamese people, that prompted combat and support personnel to refuse orders and quit the military.
Shaun Huston
18 Jan 2007
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Sir! No Sir! (2006)
War, the documentary establishes right off, is mythic and ruinous.
01 May 2006
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Barbershop: DVD Collector's Set (2002/2004)
The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.
Cynthia Fuchs
07 Nov 2004
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) comes to understand a new place for himself, and, no small thing, frames an acutely political history by his own story.
Cynthia Fuchs
27 Jun 2004
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.
Cynthia Fuchs
04 Feb 2004
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