Culture

Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’: Was he vice president or viceroy?
January 2, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Writer/director Adam McKay pursues a path of disrupting a straightforward docudrama narrative with highly filmic forays into satire, speculation, metaphor and more.
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‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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Hoagancamp’s heroes: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
December 21, 2018 By Ed Rampell
Although it’s flawed, I commend Zemeckis, his cast and crew for not only taking on such daunting subject matter, but for doing so in such an original way.
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‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’ closes Marx @ 200 movie series in L.A.
December 21, 2018 By Special to PeoplesWorld.org
The 1964 film uses a “you are there” documentary style to depict a “liberation theology” Jesus of Nazareth (Enrique Irazoqui).
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Defective defectors don’t hit trifecta in new Polish film ‘Cold War’
December 21, 2018 By Ed Rampell
Cold War’s virtue is that, to some extent, it does allow Westerners to take an insider peep into the pluses and minuses of life under Soviet-style socialism.
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