films
‘I Am My Own Mother’ shows finding birth families an awkward business
August 9, 2019Esther would need to live with the realization that what she could not get from her birth mother she already had within her.
Read more‘Fast & Furious’ presents ‘Hobbs & Shaw’: Samoa gets the ‘Black Panther’ treatment
August 1, 2019Hobbs & Shaw does for Samoa what Black Panther did for Africa with Wakanda.
Read more‘The Mountain’: A disturbing feature about lobotomy in the 1950s
July 24, 2019Perhaps The Mountain can be seen as the menacing underside of the Madison Avenue success that America in the 1950s was built up to be.
Read moreDocumentary ‘Cooked: Survival by Zip Code’ re-defines racism, poverty as disasters
July 24, 2019If we devoted as much political will and resources to addressing poverty and racism as we do to preparing for “natural” disasters, they'd inflict much less devastation on human lives.
Read more‘At War,’ class struggle film coming soon to a theater near you
July 22, 2019At War is very realistic and well-made—at times it seems like a documentary, and the cast is largely composed of nonprofessional actors.
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