Jonathan Kim

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ReThink Review: A Charlie Brown Christmas -- the True Spirit of Christmas, Free of Charge

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charlie Brown, American Consumerism, Materialism, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas, Charles Schulz, Rethink Reviews, Commercialism, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News

A video review of the 1965 classic film, which is streaming for free on Hulu through the end of 2009.

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ReThink Interview: Phillippe Diaz (part 2) -- The End of Poverty? and Changing the System

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Taxes, The End of Poverty?, Trickle Down Economics, Land Use, Poverty, Trickle Down, Agrarian Reform, De-Growth, Sustainability, Rethink Reviews, Philippe Diaz, Rethink Interviews, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News

Unless we change the system, it will collapse under its own unsustainability -- or the victims of that system will revolt and smash it. That's why Philippe Diaz made The End of Poverty?.

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ReThink Review: Brothers -- the War Drama Curse Continues

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Natalie Portman, Movie Review, Jim Sheridan, Afghanistan, Jake Gyllenhaal, War, Rethink Reviews, Iraq, Jonathan Kim, Tobey Maguire, Brothers, Entertainment News

So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially.

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ReThink Interview: Philippe Diaz (part 1) -- The End of Poverty? and How It Started

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Starvation, Debt, The End of Poverty?, Colonialism, The World Bank, Poverty, Slavery, Sustainability, Rethink Reviews, Philippe Diaz, Documentary, Imf, Capitalism, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News

What causes global poverty? Why do the countries of the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemispher...

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ReThink Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats -- the First Earth Battalion Wants You!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, Yoga, Ewan McGregor, The First Earth Battalion, Jim Channon, Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Environment, Meditation, Rethink Reviews, Jonathan Kim, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Movie Reviews, Entertainment News

Simultaneously a dark, sometimes surreal examination of the US military's foray into psychic warfare, and a comedy with some nuggets of alleged truth.

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ReThink Review: The Yes Men Fix the World -- Speaking Truth by Faking Power

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Rethink Reviews, Union Carbide, Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Kim, Dow Chemical, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Entertainment News

Armed only with cheap suits, fake websites, a few props and nuts the size of Survivaballs, the Yes Men have become infamous for infiltrating corporate events pretending to be spokesmen for government agencies or some of the world's most powerful companies.

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ReThink Review: Outrage -- One Reason Why the Bird/Shepard Hate Crimes Act Took So Long

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment

And the main reason is because hatred/fear of gays is running neck-and-neck with hatred/fear of government for the most defining, unifying characteristic of the "modern" republican party.

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ReThink Review: Where the Wild Things Are -- the Wild Within

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Children, Cenk Uygur, Rethink Reviews, The Young Turks, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, Jonathan Kim, Childhood, Spike Jonze, Kenneth Turan, Manohla Dargis, Entertainment News

Making a fantasy movie about a 9-year-old learning to understand his emotions and empathize with others seems like an almost impossible task, and Jonze pulled it off in a way I could have never imagined.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history

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ReThink Review: American Casino -- Gambling on Timebomb Loans

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Wells Fargo, Cenk Uygur, Rethink Reviews, American Casino, Credit Default Swaps, Jonathan Kim, Housing Crisis, Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Subprime Mortgages, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Reverse Redlining, The Young Turks, Alan Greenspan, Subprime Loans, Entertainment News

When you hear terms that sound very technical like "credit default swap" and "reverse redlining", it's easy for part of your brain to shut off. I was guilty of this myself.

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ReThinking Norma Rae: A Union Icon Falls Fighting the Healthcare Industry

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Employee Free Choice Act, Crystal Lee Sutton, Health Care Reform, Rethink Reviews, Norma Rae, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Jonathan Kim, Health Care, Labor Unions, Unions, Movie Critic, Healthcare, Entertainment News

We should be thankful that Crystal Lee Sutton's struggle to help the working poor has been immortalized in a film as great as Norma Rae for generations to enjoy and be inspired by.

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Rethinking Taxi to the Dark Side: On Torture and the Mystery of Cheney Not Being in Jail

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Bagram, Dilawar, Bagram Detainees, Alex Gibney, Enhanced Interrogations, Rethink Reviews, Documentary, John Yoo, Jonathan Kim, Taxi to the Dark Side, Dick Cheney, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Bagram Air Base, Entertainment News

I can't for the life of me figure out why Dick Cheney is still walking around free and -- even worse -- continues to get airtime so he can spew lies about the utter awesomeness of American torture.

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ReThinking Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.

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ReThink Review: District 9 -- Earthlings Aren't Easy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, South Africa, Rethink Reviews, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Jonathan Kim, Film Critic, Immigration, Apartheid, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Movie Critic, Refugees, Movies, Johannesburg, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News

My ReThink Review of Neill Blomkamp's excellent film, District 9, and why its creativity and social/political commentary make it a modern classic.

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ReThinking Charlie Wilson's War: the Afghan War that Keeps On Taking

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson, Jonathan Kim, War on Terror, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Julia Roberts, Brave New Films, Charlie Wilson's War, Charlie Wilson's War Reviews, Rethink Afghanistan, Soviet Afghan War, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mujahideen, Afghanistan War, Entertainment News

The US will spend more on the war in Afghanistan next year than it will in Iraq. So I thought it would be interesting to take another look at Charlie Wilson's War.

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ReThinking The Times of Harvey Milk: You Earned Your Medal, and a Lot More

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Obama is awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to Harvey Milk.

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ReThink Review: Food, Inc. -- Food as Political Unified Theory

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Organic, Locavore, Sustainable, Movie Reviews, Michael Pollan, Jonathan Kim, Politics of Food, Food Inc., Cooking, Fast Food, Food Safety, Documentary, Rethink Reviews, Diabetes, Health Care, Movie Critic, Eric Schlosser, Entertainment News

I'm sure most Americans have no idea how truly screwed up our food system is, and when they find out, they'll start looking for alternatives.

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ReThinking The Iron Giant: Cold War Anti-Gun Fun...For Kids!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Children, War, Gun Control, Militarism, The Iron Giant, Cold War, Movie Reviews, Rethink Reviews, Jonathan Kim, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Brad Bird, Kids, Film Critic, Kids Movies, Anti-Gun, Movie Critic, Entertainment News

What's an anti-violence parent/babysitter to do? Isn't there a kids' movie out there that's fun and adventurous while advocating non-violence?

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ReThinking Thank You for Smoking: Tobacco's Last Action Hero?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Thank You for Smoking, Movie Review, Rethink Reviews, The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Jonathan Kim, Jason Reitman, Smoking, Cigarettes, Lobbyists, Aaron Eckhart, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Health Care, Movie Critic, Big Tobacco, Chris Rock, Entertainment News

The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.

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Rethinking Who Killed the Electric Car?: How GM Doubled Down on Dinosaurs

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Movie Review, Jonathan Kim, Who Killed the Electric Car, General Motors, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, Electric Cars, Rethink Reviews, Documentary, Chris Paine, Labor Unions, Business News

Instead of embracing the inevitable future of the auto industry, GM decided to be the #1 producer of dinosaurs.

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ReThink Review: Bruno -- Das Ist Offendzen You, Yah?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno, Rethink Reviews, Borat, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, BrüNo, Entertainment News

Is the character of Bruno, an ultra-flamboyant gay fashion reporter, offensive or damaging to gay people? (Maybe).

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Rethinking the Fog of War: McNamara, the Movie, the Monster

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Review, The Fog of War, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War, Bob Herbert, Errol Morris, Rethink Reviews, World War II, Robert McNamara, Jonathan Kim, Film, Cold War, Movie Critic, Entertainment News

Most of The Fog of War "lessons" reflect the powerful and painful humility of a man who knows he has made grave mistakes with graver consequences.

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Rethinking Wall Street: Why Bernie Madoff Makes Gordon Gekko Look Like Zac Efron

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oliver Stone, Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas, Economy, Jonathan Kim, Wall Street, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Martha Stewart, Economic Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Corporate Greed, Economic Meltdown, Zac Efron, Entertainment News

But as the sordid details of the economic meltdown are revealed, it's clear that Gordon Gekko has nothing on the real corporate supervillains walking freely among us today.

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