films
‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
Read moreRadical 1942 anti-fascist docu-drama ‘Native Land’ to screen in L.A.
June 25, 2018This classic 1942 pro-union, anti-racist, anti-fascist docu-drama was the final film by the leftist collective Frontier Films and of Paul Robeson.
Read moreEco-messages abound in ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
June 22, 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s eco-theme raises it from being just a crowd pleasing special FX-laden spectacle to a more worthy movie meditation upon species going extinct.
Read more‘Hereditary’: The horror of privilege
June 19, 2018No one will call Hereditary, the directorial debut of Ari Aster, a simple haunted house story.
Read more‘The Workers Cup’: New documentary tackles soccer and slavery
June 7, 2018There’s a bigger game at play here - that of class struggle - and we're part of it in some way, not mere bystanders in the crowd.
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