Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Film round-up
Reviews of Some Kind of Heaven, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Undergods and Servants
SURREAL: Some Kind of Heaven
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
Some Kind of Heaven
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
★★★★
HAILED as the “Disneyland for retirees,” this fascinating documentary explores life inside the largest retirement community in the US, in Florida of course, but from the point of view of those residents that didn’t fit into the fantasy.
Lance Oppenheim’s compelling and surreal debut feature follows four people who moved to The Villages to live the American Dream and find happiness, but who, living on its margins, find that their fantasy has turned into a nightmare.
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