![]() Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party - In his shocking new film, Dinesh D’Souza exposes the secret history of the Democrats and the true. It’s long been said that Doctor Who is meant to send you scurrying behind the sofa, but “Knock Knock” is the first time in a very long while something on Who. Hillary’s America may well be the single dumbest documentary that I have ever seen in my life—nearly two hours of poisonous bluster and anti-historical rhetoric. Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party Movie Review (2. Just over a year ago, not long after being released from the. Dinesh D’Souza took to Twitter to offer up his followers a. All rights reserved. Box Office Mojo and IMDb are trademarks or registered trademarks of IMDb.com, Inc. The effort to use social media to vet immigrants and refugees is part of the “extreme vetting” overhaul Trump has promised his base in order to block terrorists. Share this Rating. Title: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) 5.5 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Hillary Clinton with a Confederate. Even a glaucoma victim could tell that it was a fake—a doctored version of a photo of her as a. Wellesley in 1. 96. Life magazine—but somehow this. When he did eventually post a vague correction, he. Wellesley student in the late . Little more than an extended. Advertisement. If you think I'm being gratuitously mean (or giving up a. D’Souza as a convicted felon, then you should know. U. S. According to the film. D’Souza is really being convicted for the crime of having made a movie that. Obama as a lying, cheating monster hellbent on destroying. America. While in the stir—in which he seems to be the only one not. After getting a primer from fellow inmate Roc, it dawns on him that what he is hearing is oddly familiar. After finally departing the confinement center, D’Souza knows. This requires studying up on the Democratic Party—something. Democratic Headquarters,” a recreated location that appears to. Tommy Wiseau and which contains a. We learn of the monstrous policies of such infamous Democrats as. Woodrow Wilson (who screened “The Birth of a Nation” at the White House) and. Lyndon Johnson (whose only interest in passing the Voting Rights Act was to. Negroes who “are pretty uppity” and to ensure their party loyalty for. At this point, you may be thinking “Hey, didn’t the. Democrats and Republicans change and. Democrats became. Republicans and the more progressive Republicans became Democrats?” Not so. D'Souza—he assures us that nothing of the sort happened and. Southern Democrats became Republican after the Voting. Rights Act was because the South became more prosperous and less racist because. Republican policies. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned. Parenthood, is presented as a character straight out of a horror film, and much. KKK members. Of. course, the film doesn’t mention that Sanger at the time basically spoke to. I had in lectures”), or how she was praised. Martin Luther King Jr. Then there is Saul. Alinsky, who is portrayed as a criminal monster who worked his way up from. Frank Nitti, eventually taking the lessons he. Eventually, one of his prot. By “shocking truth,” of course, the information amounts to “largely discredited crap your uncle sent you on Facebook.” The tenor of this. D’Souza asking “Is Hillary really capable of enabling a. Bill’s. infidelities (there are many shots of a woman in a sexy black dress slinking. Hillary ranting through the halls of the White House, a. Clinton Foundation. As for Benghazi, he. As this segment ends, D’Souza denounces them for. America into a plantation” if she is elected president. At no time. however, does he make any sort of case for an alternative to her in this. Even though the film is up- to- date enough to include a moment. Obama was responsible for the massacre in Orlando, there is, at. Donald Trump. All of this is conveyed by D’Souza in the most cinematically. The film is less a coherent narrative than a compendium. Metropolis” and “Evita. From a filmmaking perspective, the. D’Souza. on the political spectrum should feel ripped off. Worst of all, it utterly. Hillary Clinton takedown by never. This is especially astounding, as even those. Iraq and her embrace of the teachings of Henry Kissinger to name a. D’Souza is more concerned with calling. Bill Clinton a sex abuser but blaming it all on Hillary. The closest thing I can compare it to are the. Sunn Classics used to crank. Seventies—movies that breathlessly promised viewers that they. Bermuda Triangle or. Noah’s Ark but only gave people clumsy reenactments, interviews with highly. Those films used to get huge audiences, but. And if the drop in. D’Souza’s first two films is any indication (“2. America” came and went so quickly that he never makes reference to. Okay, he can’t, but the thought. Doctor Who Is on One Hell of a Streak Lately. Doctor Who’s tenth season is only four episodes in, but I can’t remember the last time the show hit the ground running as well it has this season. We’ve had great chemistry between Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie, great fun, and now in this weekend’s episode, “Knock Knock”, we got the rest of the perfect Who formula: a whole load of scares and a lot of heartbreak. The last time Doctor Who really attempted a properly spooky “haunted house” story was “Hide” back in season seven—but by its climax, it quickly became a story about love rather than having the bejeezus scared out of you. The same could arguably be said of “Knock Knock”, which starts out as a classic horror story and by its climax becomes a tragic paean on letting go of your loved ones. But unlike “Hide”, the twist managed to feel much more earned in this week’s epsiode—as well as being much scarier. And not just because most of the guest cast were students on the hunt for some cheap lodgings, the most dread- laden scenario of them all. It’s long been said that Doctor Who is meant to send you scurrying behind the sofa, but “Knock Knock” is the first time in a very long while something on Who managed to actually scare me in more than just a particularly chilling concept. The show builds up a lot of tension with all the knocking, the maudlin environment of the old house itself, and the classic trope of its cavalcade of young cast members being slowly picked off one by one, But after discovering that Bill and her new friends’ rental house is host to an army of creepy alien lice—or dryads, as the Doctor nicknames them—the show ramped up into scare overdrive. It’s rare these days to actually see body horror on Who, as the show much prefers to keep it off camera and leave the terror to your imagination, which is usually more effective than Who’s budget can manage anyway. But this episode featured not one, but two moments of people being devoured whole by masses of sentient lice, emitting blood- curdling shrieks as they died. At quarter- to- eight on a Saturday evening (here in the U. K.)! It was actually refreshing, in a weird way. And honestly? I think the CG was frighteningly effective, too. And yet “Knock Knock” became so much more than a great bit of horror, as Bill and the Doctor—mostly separated from each other this episode, but still as on fire as they have been this series—each slowly unravelled the mystery behind the chilling Landlord who’s been luring unwitting students to his lice- house and having them consumed for decades. The revelation that the Landlord is doing it out of a misguided sense of protecting his half- wooden mother Eliza, the dryads’ first “victim” after he brought them into the house as a child, is a bit confusing at first—I’m still not entirely sure why he lied to her and guests for years that Eliza was his daughter rather than his mother—but it was still an incredibly emotional turn, mainly thanks to a powerful performance from David Suchet (best known in the UK as the definitive portrayal of Agatha Christie’s beloved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, in a long- running series of murder mystery adaptations). It also played into what appears to be a growing theme in this season of Doctor Who: How do you measure the value of one life against another? Can you make the choice to save one life over the lives of many? Each episode so far this season has attempted to tackle that, to varying degrees of success—“Knock Knock” arguably did the most emotional version so far, with Eliza choosing to end her half- life and her son’s heartbreakingly misguided devotion to her by destroying both them and the house. But what’s this theme leading to? Could it play an important part of the Doctor’s impending regeneration? We’ll have to see, but as long as we keep getting consistently great episodes of the show like we have so far in season 1. I’m more than willing to wait and see how it all pans out. Assorted Musings (In Time and Space): A special note has to go here for a truly stellar performance from guest star David Suchet in this episode, which ought to go down as one of the best guest appearances the show’s ever had. His ability to turn from a sinister, creepy figure as the Landlord to a blubbering, grief- stricken child sells the revelation of his real relationship with Eliza far more than the script does. A masterful turn from a British acting legend. I know many people groan at the “everybody lives” attitude a lot of Doctor Who has lately, so I know one sticking point about this episode is going to be the fact all of Bill’s space- lice- devoured friends are back to life by the end of the episode. But I kind of accept it, if only because it could’ve been almost absurdly grim for an episode of a family TV show to end with all but two primary cast members dead. Doctor Who’s done that before, sure, but it didn’t really need to happen here. So it’s got to be some version of the Master, whether it’s Missy or the Simm incarnation, in the vault, right? The Doctor’s friendliness with them, the playful piano playing, the joyful reaction to getting to hear a story filled with death and destruction. If that’s not the Master, then it’s one hell of a red herring to make us all think it is. Hopefully it won’t be much longer till we find out. The BBC released a special binaural audio version of this episode online after broadcast, designed to be viewed with headphones to get an immersive listening experience. But let me tell you, listening to Peter Capaldi crunch on a prawn cracker in truly superb audio in it is an experience not to be missed. Documentary Movies at the Box Office. Present. NOTE: Documentary as sub- genre of Non- Fiction. Large format (ex. Everest), concert (music, ex. Woodstock, and comedy, ex. Raw) , compilation (ex. That's Entertainment) and reality TV movies (ex. Jackass) omitted. Hybrids (ex. Never Say Never) are included. Rows: #1- 1. 00, #1. Rank. Title (click to view)Studio. Lifetime Gross / Theaters. Opening / Theaters. Date. 1Fahrenheit 9/1. Lions$1. 19,1. 94,7. March of the Penguins. WIP$7. 7,4. 37,2. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Par. 7. 3,0. 13,9. Michael Jackson's This Is It. Sony$7. 2,0. 91,0. Obama's America. RM$3. Earth (2. 00. 9)BV$3. Chimpanzee. BV$2. One Direction: This is Us. Tri. S$2. 8,8. 73,3. Katy Perry: Part of Me. Par. 2. 5,3. 26,0. Sicko. LGF$2. 4,5. An Inconvenient Truth. Par. C$2. 4,1. 46,1. Bowling for Columbine. UA$2. 1,5. 76,0. 18. Oceans. BV$1. 9,4. Bears. BV$1. 7,7. Monkey Kingdom. BV$1. African Cats. BV$1. Madonna: Truth or Dare. Mira. 1. 5,0. 12,9. America (2. 01. 4)LGF$1. Capitalism: A Love Story. Over. 1. 4,3. 63,3. Born in China. BV$1. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. QF$1. 3,0. 99,9. 31. Religulous. LGF$1. Winged Migration. SPC$1. 1,6. 89,0. Super Size Me. IDP$1. A Beautiful Planet. Imax$1. 0,3. 83,5. Amy. A2. 4$8,4. 13,1. Mad Hot Ballroom. Par. C$8,1. 17,9. Jerusalem. NGE$8,0. Hoop Dreams. FL$7,8. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. RM$7,7. 20,4. 87. Tupac: Resurrection. Par. 7,7. 18,9. 61. Babies. Focus$7,3. I am Not Your Negro. Magn. 7,1. 16,6. 36. Roger and Me. WB$6,7. Waiting for . 6,0. Spellbound (2. 00. Think$5,7. 28,5. 81. Flying Monsters. NGE$5,7. Shine a Light. Par. V$5,5. 05,2. 67. 27. Cave of Forgotten Dreams. IFC$5,3. 04,9. 20. Feet from Stardom. RTWC$4,9. 46,4. 45. Touching the Void. IFC$4,5. 93,5. 98. Food, Inc. Magn. 4,4. Inside Job. SPC$4,3. That's Dancing! MGM$4,2. The Fog of War. SPC$4,1. Good Hair. RAtt. 4,1. Bully (2. 01. 2)Wein. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Magn. 4,0. 71,7. 00. Buck. IFC$4,0. 38,9. Young@Heart. Fox. S$3,9. 92,1. 89. 21. Where to Invade Next. Drft. 3,8. 27,2. 61. The September Issue. RAtt. 3,8. 20,0. 67. Paris is Burning. Mira. 3,7. 79,6. 20. Imagine: John Lennon. WB$3,7. 53,9. 77. Searching for Sugar Man. SPC$3,6. 96,1. 96. Step Into Liquid. Art. 3,6. 81,8. 03. Pina. IFC$3,5. 24,8. Born Into Brothels. Think$3,5. 15,0. 61. The Corporation. Zeit. Rize. Lions$3,3. 36,3. Exit Through the Gift Shop. PDA$3,2. 91,2. 50. Catfish. Rog. 3,2. Grizzly Man. Lions$3,1. The Eagle Huntress. SPC$3,1. 69,3. 51. Wordplay. IFC$3,1. Capturing the Friedmans. Magn. 3,1. 19,1. 13. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Shad. 3,0. 58,5. 27. Crumb. SPC$3,0. 41,0. Man on Wire. Magn. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. IFC$2,9. 30,6. 87. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years. Abr. 2,9. 30,4. 14. Unzipped. Mira. 2,8. Citizenfour. RTWC$2,8. When We Were Kings. Gram. 2,7. 89,9. 85. Comedian. Mira. 2,7. My Architect. NYer$2,7. Freeriders. WM$2,7. Samsara. Osci. 2,6. He Named Me Malala. Fox. S$2,6. 68,9. Kedi. Osci. 2,6. 61,1. Control Room. Magn. Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Magn. 2,5. 52,4. 78. The Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure. Cow. 2,4. 53,0. 83. The Gatekeepers. SPC$2,4. The Queen of Versailles. Magn. 2,4. 01,9. 99. Hillsong - Let Hope Rise. PFR$2,3. 94,3. 86. Meru. MBox$2,3. 34,2. WARx. 2WARX2$2,3. Snowriders 2. WM$2,2. A Brief History of Time. Trit$2,2. 79,6. 92. Riding Giants. SPC$2,2. Rivers and Tides. Roxie$2,2. 00,2. 76. The Endless Summer IINL$2,1. Blackfish. Magn. 2,0. Snowriders. WM$2,0. Beyond the Mat. Lions$2,0. Endless Winter. WM$1,9. TOTAL (All Movies).
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