Culture

‘Indirect Actions’ and ‘The Advocates’: Two new films on social problems
October 30, 2019 By Ed Rampell
The 11th annual DTLA Film Festival has just concluded.
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Docu- and mockumentaries at Toronto International Film Festival
October 30, 2019 By Bill Meyer
Just like with the news, it’s getting difficult to draw the line between fact and fiction—truth or lies—in movies.
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‘The Laundromat’: Getting the dirt out
October 29, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz
The Laundromat tells us and shows us that reform of America’s broken finance system cannot wait.
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POETRY: A mother stamps her feet
October 28, 2019 By Rafael Pizarro
A mother in San Jose sees a child in a cage and stamps her feet.
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Race and grace in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
October 25, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize committee called Between Riverside and Crazy “a nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.”
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