<![CDATA[Santa Barbara Current : ON FILM]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/s/on-filmhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gkEc!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb12566a2-32fd-437b-83c9-577458a3abd2_132x132.pngSanta Barbara Current : ON FILMhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/s/on-filmSubstackTue, 21 Apr 2026 08:59:19 GMT<![CDATA[October 8th]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/october-8thhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/october-8thWed, 26 Mar 2025 13:32:22 GMT

I don’t know how to write about this film. All I can do describe what it was like to sit in the near-empty movie theatre and witness our national shame paraded before my eyes. (Right now, stop reading and look up where October 8 is being shown in your community. Then go.)

This superb documentary opens with the sound of air raid sirens all too familiar to…

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]]><![CDATA[Racists On the Loose]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/racists-on-the-loosehttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/racists-on-the-looseFri, 04 Oct 2024 13:31:56 GMT
Promotional poster for “Am I Racist?”. Courtesy of The Daily Wire

When asked by a black waitress how he likes his coffee, Matt Walsh is reluctant to say that he prefers his coffee black. So begins his journey to determine if he is indeed racist. In the first part of his journey, he attends a support group focused on white guilt.  While in the crying ro…

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]]><![CDATA[Bad News for Goodfellas]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/bad-news-for-goodfellashttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/bad-news-for-goodfellasWed, 22 May 2024 14:23:38 GMT
Warner Brothers / Alamy

“Trigger Warning” for an American Classic

AMC (American Movie Classics) has just slapped Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece "Goodfellas" with a trigger warning. "This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards of inclusion and tolerance", the warning states, "and may offend some …

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]]><![CDATA[The Mike Flynn I Know]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/the-mike-flynn-i-knowhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/the-mike-flynn-i-knowWed, 20 Mar 2024 13:30:18 GMT
Michele R. Weslander Quaid and Lieutenant General Mike Flynn

Have you ever seen people in the news and wondered what they are really like? It’s hard to know, especially if the reports are from the hopelessly corrupt mainstream media. Michael “Mike” Flynn, LTG US Army (retired), has been prominent in the media.

He is coming to Santa Barbara for the Southe…

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]]><![CDATA[In a Zone of its Own ]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/in-a-zone-of-its-ownhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/in-a-zone-of-its-ownSat, 09 Mar 2024 14:45:09 GMT
Courtesy A24

Aside from its subject – Nazis and the “Final Solution” – Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest is far from a standard Holocaust depiction. The movie has little in common with acclaimed multi-Oscar winners Schindler’s List or, say, Life is Beautiful, but it too deserves the status of both Best International Feature and Best Picture (thou…

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]]><![CDATA[Boys in the Boat]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/boys-in-the-boathttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/boys-in-the-boatWed, 03 Jan 2024 15:15:22 GMT
The original Boys in the Boat on Lake Washington, 1936. Source: UWashington

The day after Christmas, I went to the movies with a friend. In a near-empty theater, we watched The Boys in the Boat, a film based upon the best-selling book of the same name about a junior varsity team from the Pacific Northwest, hard-hit by the Depression. The “boys” were the…

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