As America heads toward the midterm elections, Spike Lee, Michael Moore and Dinesh D’Souza all hope their films will have a profound effect on voters
August is supposed to offer the average moviegoer their last chance to bask in big-budget spectacle and easy escapism, the time when studios unload the remainder of their summer tent-poles as they gear up for the heady days of Oscar season. However, a cursory glance at the slate of films currently on US release – including Spike Lee’s civil rights-era police procedural, BlacKkKlansman, Boots Riley’s surrealist satire of late capitalism, Sorry to Bother You, the kinetic social drama Blindspotting, and, at other end of the ideological spectrum, the latest piece of revisionist history from rightwing polemicist Dinesh D’Souza, Death of a Nation – reveals a lineup that has more in common with the politically charged fare typically associated with awards season.
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