Culture

Radical 1942 anti-fascist docu-drama ‘Native Land’ to screen in L.A.

June 25, 2018 By Special to People’s World

This classic 1942 pro-union, anti-racist, anti-fascist docu-drama was the final film by the leftist collective Frontier Films and of Paul Robeson.

Eco-messages abound in ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’

June 22, 2018 By Ed Rampell

Jurassic 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.

For LGBTQ Pride Month: Poetry for the season

June 20, 2018 By Special to People’s World

We hope these selections from Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time provide some fresh and welcome perspective.

Washing the crime away: ‘Tar’ and ‘The Women of Lockerbie’

June 20, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

My weekend playgoing curiously featured two plays centered on the theme of washing crime away.

‘Hereditary’: The horror of privilege

June 19, 2018 By W. Scott Poole

No one will call Hereditary, the directorial debut of Ari Aster, a simple haunted house story.