Culture

‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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Documentary about journalist Robert Fisk a highlight of Toronto International Film Festival
December 11, 2019 By Bill Meyer
One of the most progressive films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was a National Film Board of Canada documentary, This Is Not a Movie.
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‘Citizen K’: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the birthing of the new Russia
December 10, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Citizen K is totally riveting from beginning to end, assuming a viewer has some interest in the subject.
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Queer Eye for the Cinefile: How Enlightened was the Enlightenment?
December 10, 2019 By Ed Rampell
"Portrait of a Lady On Fire" film review.
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POETRY: Guessing the Country
December 9, 2019 By Chris Butters
The country where big money is speech and health care is a prayer.
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