by Philip Farruggio | Feb 21, 2026 | Blog
John Sayles wrote and directed the blockbuster 1987 film Matewan, about the 1920 ‘Battle of Matewan’. This was centered around the Matewan ,West Virginia coal miner’s strike that saw scores of people left dead. Fast forward 115 years to Minneapolis,...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 12, 2026 | Blog
Just watched the late Rob Reiner’s 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi for the umpteenth time. The movie, based on a true story, covers the 1989 retrial of the killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, one Byron De La Beckwith. The assassination of Evers by...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog
Rock artist Phil Collins put it succinctly in his major hit song ” I Don’t Care Anymore’: Hey, I’ll do alright by myself ‘Cause I don’t ‘Cause I remember all the times I tried so hard And you laughed in my face ’cause...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog
We first have to understand, in a darkly humorous way, just how far down the rabbit hole the Trump Regime has fallen. I take it back, it is NOT so humorous at all folks! Looking how ‘Life imitates art’ we should watch Don Siegel’s 1956 film Invasion...
by Philip Farruggio | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog
It was ’85 and this writer had been divorced for going on four years. I had my two young sons, 10 and 7, living with their mom and her boyfriend in Canarsie Brooklyn. I lived in this quaint attic apartment a half hour away from them in Elmont, Long Island, not...
