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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?

January 7, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.

Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films

December 23, 2019 By Dennis Broe

There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.

A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’

December 23, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.

Hanukkah: A holiday rooted in struggle against imperialism

December 23, 2019 By Henry Millstein

In a world where the far right is resurgent, the message of Hanukkah—that an oppressed people must and can unite and win victory over their oppressors—is more relevant than ever.

‘After Porn Ends’: New documentary explores lives of actors post-career

December 20, 2019 By Brian W. Major

The documentary shines a light on the hypocrisy of a society that fantasizes about sex workers on one hand, then stigmatizes them for that work on the other.