Culture – Page 305 – People's World

Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival offers provocative fare

May 3, 2019 By Bill Meyer

Jam packed with over 200 enticing titles, the festival provides progressive filmgoers with lots of thought-provoking options.

‘The Man Who Fell from the Sky’, Bill Fletcher Jr.’s new crime novel

May 3, 2019 By Tim Libretti

With The Man Who Fell From the Sky, I can promise you’ll get the political punch and a riveting story.

‘Dr. Nympho vs. the Sex Zombies,’ mashup of genres, amuses in L.A.

May 2, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

I am not especially a zombie fan, but Dr. Nympho came so highly vouched for that I did not want to miss it.

Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51

April 30, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.

‘In the Penal Colony’: A Philip Glass opera based on Franz Kafka

April 30, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Two of the world’s most popular and introspective artists have paired up after almost four-score years to create a mesmerizing piece of stage theatre that operagoers will not soon forget. Southern California is currently...