Culture

‘The Twilight Zone’: ‘Meet in the Middle’ explores the price of human connection

July 2, 2020 By Chauncey K. Robinson

“What kind of compromise goes into a connection with another human being?” – ‘The Twilight Zone’

‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’

June 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.

Religion and progressive politics in America: A book review

June 29, 2020 By Garron Daniels

Each chapter is a whole new story, a movement, preacher, or history lesson.

Pain, hope, change: Boarded-up buildings become canvases for radical art

June 29, 2020 By Al Neal

Activist artists transform sealed businesses into public art broadcasting a message of resilience and social transformation.

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.