Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price

December 5th, 2008 admin

2005
Director: Robert Greenwald
Runtime: 95 Minutes
Distributor: Brave New Films
Rating: Unrated

After giving both Rupert Murdoch’s singular approach to journalism and The Bush Administration’s case for the war in Iraq his own special attention, political activist and filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes aim at the world’s largest corporation. While the policies of Wal*Mart are no longer exactly news, they still make for fascinating and frightening examination. Greenwald takes us on a tour of grass routes American and shows the thundering impact the retail giant has at ground level for people in the community, the workers and those who manufacture and supply its goods.

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This is Not a Robbery

November 11th, 2008 admin

The debut feature from directorial trio Lucas Jansen, Adam Kurland, and Spencer Vreeman, This is not a Robbery chronicles the life, the times, and the multiple bank robberies commited by disgruntled, eighty-seven-year-old former millionaire J.L. “Red” Rountree.

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