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      Barbershop Punk

      2010 1 hr. 24 min. Documentary List
      67% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 81% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Critical issues about the Internet challenge the status quo. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Amazing story and created by two women who are pretty bad ass. You never know how much we might give up or could be taken away from us until you see this movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a ridiculously good documentary. It is a must see for anyone interested in how our society is being shaped by the forces behind the invisible net we call the internet... talk about "the man behind the curtain". This is a MUST see for anyone in the Music or Film industry and really for anyone who simply uses the internet... it is scary, thought-provoking and makes you realize that it might not be that the internet is out of control but instead that it is over-controlled by "the corporate machine" in ways we don't even realize.... thanks for this eye-opener Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Let me start by giving you some advice: Watch this at home, not in a theater. I was very glad I did because there were several points in the movie where my family wanted to pause it and talk about some idea or concept. If you do see it in a theater, it might be a good idea to bring a pen and paper so that you can jot down your thoughts. Like most good documentaries, this one makes you want to keep discussing political issues after the movie ends. It presented these issues - net neutrality, common carrier laws, government regulation vs. free enterprise - in a way that makes you want to research them later. It leaves you wanting more, and that is a good thing. The movie did seem a little bit short to me, at 1 hour 17 minutes, but it packs in a lot of information without ever getting boring. Overall a wonderful effort, definitely worth seeing if you care at all about freedom and the Internet. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member In the immortal words of Ian McKaye - "Freaks. Deviants. That's me". Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Takes a technical subject and breaks it down into an understandable story about how these laws and regulations affect our personal lives and civil liberties. If you want to learn about how your privacy is being vioated, or how voicescare being censored by corporate interests then you MUST SEE this film Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member I hope everyone sees it :) Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Eddie Cockrell Variety The urgency of this complex and far-reaching issue, coupled with the undeniable appeal of the Everyman story that triggered the debate, will propel "Punk" to harmonious fest exposure and tenacious afterlife. Oct 16, 2012 Full Review Andy Webster New York Times An engaging, provocative documentary using one man's crusade against Comcast (now merged with NBC Universal) to explore issues of Web freedom. Rated: 4/5 Nov 10, 2011 Full Review Lauren Wissot Slant Magazine An impotent exploration of the fight to take the Internet out of the hands of the Man. Rated: 1.5/4 Nov 9, 2011 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews The first film to tackle the all-important subject of whether the Comcast's and Time-Warner's of the world will have the power to control what we see, hear or post on the Internet. Gives the term "net neutrality" a flesh-and-blood urgency. Nov 13, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Critical issues about the Internet challenge the status quo.
      Director
      Kristin Armfield, Georgia Sugimura Archer
      Executive Producer
      Anthony Dominici
      Screenwriter
      Georgia Sugimura Archer
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 5, 2016