Culture
‘Slaughter City’: Class struggle meets ‘Twilight Zone’
June 27, 2018This proletarian drama has a vibe similar to HBO’s Westworld series: Although its flesh and blood assembly line laborers are no androids, they are indeed all-too-human.
Read more‘The Humans’: 2016 Tony Award-winning Best Play dissects American social decline
June 26, 2018Maybe just zeroing in on the problems of an inhumane society is enough to stir the conscience.
Read more‘Lysistrata Unbound’: An ancient Greek sit-down sex strike
June 26, 2018One suspects that Aristophanes is smiling down from Mount Olympus upon this latest adaptation of his masterpiece.
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.
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