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Samantha Stark’s ‘Framing Britney Spears’

by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | April 19th, 2021

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com18 April 2021Validated and legitimized by a kind of inflated imprimatur as an episode in “The New York Times Presents” series, filmmaker Samantha Stark’s “Framing Britney Spears” is a frustrating piece of lopsided speculation that never quite does enough to investigate and interrogate the horrifying treatment experienced by…

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The Master’s Voice: Monro’s ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 12th, 2021

…The Master’s Voice: Monro’s ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’By Greg Carlson09 April 2021Joining the group of nonfiction portraits that includes “Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures,” “Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes,” “Room 237,” “S Is for Stanley,” and “Filmworker,” Gregory Monro’s “Kubrick by Kubrick” is a worthy addition to the growing collection of documentary…

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Is Christianity in Limbo?

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 12th, 2021

…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Sam Harris: “At Some Point It’s Going to Be Too Embarrassing to Believe in God”After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Jerry Falwell, Sr., the leader of the Christian Right “Moral Majority,” blamed the attack on “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and…

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End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021)

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 6th, 2021

…By Greg Carlson02 April 2021Kring’s ‘End of the Line’ Part of North Dakota Environmental Rights Film FestivalOne of several powerful films included in the upcoming 2021 North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival—screening virtually from April 11 through April 25—director Shannon Kring’s “End of the Line: The…

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Days of Race and Ethnics

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 4th, 2021

…By Ed Raymond  fargogadfly@gmail.comWhy Can’t Whites Jump? In 1946 I graduated from Morrison County District #54 with two others, a German boy and a Polish girl. I’m French. I graduated from Little Falls High School in 1950 with 241 other lily-Whites. Oh, it’s possible that some might have had a…

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Collecting Movies With Toby Jones

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | March 29th, 2021

…Collecting Movies with Toby Jones (2021)By Greg Carlson  gregcarlson1@gmail.com28 March 2021Toby Jones is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and cartoonist from Fargo, North Dakota currently living in Los Angeles. He has worked as a writer and storyboard director on “Regular Show,” an executive producer on “OK K.O.!: Let’s Be Heroes,” and…

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Death at the OK Corral, DSA

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 28th, 2021

…The only cure for our firearm pandemic is to reduce our number of firearms to the rate held by the 37 most developed countries, limit their power and capacity, and track all ammunition.By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comWhy American Kids Need More School Active-Shooter Drills Than Fire DrillsThe Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area has…

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Morden Seeks to Avoid Late Fees at ‘The Last Blockbuster

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | March 21st, 2021

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1agmail.com                                                                                               …

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Engine of Inequality

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 21st, 2021

…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com21 January 2021 What Job Pays 90 Bucks an Hour and You Just Have to Keep Repeating “NO”?There evidently is a great deal of truth in the old adage: “Those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it.” The Divided States of America are beginning to look…

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‘Freeland’ Screening in Virtual 2021 Fargo Film Festival

by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | March 15th, 2021

…by Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comAn engrossing portrait that takes viewers deep into the world of marijuana farming in Northern California’s Humboldt County, “Freeland’’ rumbles along on the strength of a lovely central performance by Krisha Fairchild as Devi, a one-time hippie and last-woman-standing from the idealistic commune of the title. Fairchild, who…

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