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Entries by Jonathan Kim from 08/2009

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

| Posted 08.03.2009
Read More: Movie Review, Lgbt, Doma, The Times of Harvey Milk, Lesbian, Harvey Milk, Gays and Lesbians, Rethink Reviews, Gay, Defense of Marriage Act, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Jonathan Kim, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Dadt, Film Critic, Prop 8, LGBT Rights, Tom Ammiano, Gays, Movie Critic, Medal of Freedom, News

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

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

| Posted 08.14.2009
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, 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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ReThink Review: District 9 -- Earthlings Aren't Easy

| Posted 08.17.2009
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, 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 Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

| Posted 08.24.2009
Read More: Cenk Uygur, Movie Review, Standard Operating Procedure, George W. Bush, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, John Yoo, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Abu Ghraib, The Young Turks, Movie Reviews, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Film Critic, Errol Morris, Documentary, Iraq, Torture, Sabrina Harman, News

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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