(GOOD PROPAGANDA) V for Vendetta is certainly the most expensive anti-Bush film ever made, and judging from its $25 million haul last weekend, it’s bound to pass the highest grossing anti-Bush film to date, Fahrenheit 9/11. Written by the Wachowski brothers, and based on a comic by Alan Moore, and set in the near future, V for Vendetta is about a superhero who overthrows a fear-mongering dictator. Stop reading this and go see it. (See Movie Times, p. 83, for more info.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...