Real-world Systems Are Rotten so fuck the free world
This category is for when you want to watch something and get furious at the fact it’s real. Fraud. Corruption. “Legal” disasters. Systems built to protect themselves. Great movies. Terrible reassurance.
The Picks
A Black detective infiltrates the KKK by phone, and his colleague does the in-person part. Funny until it’s not.
Official synopsis
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Financial crisis explained like a heist movie, except the heist is legal and everyone gets away with it. You will learn and you will get angry.
Official synopsis
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
No matter what you do DO NOT piss of a single mom. A woman with zero patience and maximum conviction takes on a corporation and wins. Pure ‘system vs stubborn human’ energy.
Official synopsis
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.