Culture

‘The Hunt’ released Friday the 13th: Must we burn Blumhouse?
March 12, 2020 By Ed Rampell
On August 9, 2019, the commander-in-tweet attacked “Liberal Hollywood” for having “great Anger and Hate! …The movie coming out [which] is made in order to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence and then...
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On the global television beat: Robin Hood in the neoliberal age
March 11, 2020 By Dennis Broe
The last studio big-budget Robin with Russell Crowe had Robin himself as a baron who saves England and guarantees it for the other barons.
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‘Breaking the Silence’ documents testimonies of Israeli veterans of Palestinian Occupation
March 10, 2020 By Cathy Deppe
Testimonies of Israeli veterans who served in the Occupied Palestinian territories take us out of our comfort zones.
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‘Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s’: On- and offstage lives
March 9, 2020 By Ed Rampell
Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar is the latest in this venerable lineage, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend.
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New collection of biographies recounts post-1956 U.S. Communist history
March 9, 2020 By Al Neal
Many historians place the CPUSA as in decline, but Pecinovsky corrects the record, showing its on social and economic justice, racial justice, the fight against sexism, and the push for global peace.
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