It influences elections and sways outcomes -- gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are those on the front lines fighting to change the system.
Chris Durrance, Barak Goodman
Director
Stephen Wolf
Self - Redistricting Expert
Rick Pluta
Self - Michigan Public Radio
Charles Williams II
Self - National Action Network (as Rev. Charles Williams II)
Curt Guyette
Self - Journalist, Metro Times
David Daley
Self - Author, "Ratf**ked" and "Unrigged"
Katie Fahey
Self - Voters Not Politicians
Kevin Deegan-Krause
Self - Political Science Professor, Wayne State
Chris Jankowski
Self - Republican Strategist
Margaret Dickson
Self - Former Democratic State Representative, North Carolina
Vann Newkirk
Self - Journalist, The Atlantic
Jeff Jackson
Self
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
In Stowaway, director Joe Penna narrates the story of a starship crew (Anna Kendrick as Zoe Levenson; Toni Collette as Marina Barnett; and Daniel Dae Kim as David Kim) struggling with serious technical problems on a two-year mission to Mars. During the trip, they discover aboard the presence of Michael (Shamier Anderson), a stowaway who jeopardizes everyone’s life on board.
The Vietnamese perspective is not only completely ignored in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever', but it is blatantly whitewashed and disrespected.
At 2:17 a.m., every child in a third-grade class wakes up, leaves their home, and disappears into the darkness—except one. The next day, teacher Justine Gandy discovers that Alex Lily is the only student left, while the rest have vanished without a trace. Did Justine have something to do with it, or is a far more sinister force stalking the town, targeting not just children, but anyone in its path?
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.