films

‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Short documentary about menstruation and sanitary pads

January 18, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film gives us scenes of awkward young women and men interviewed as to what they actually know about menstruation.

‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’: A lament for rural America

January 17, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film is an adaptation of Bakopoulos’s first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon.

RBG hits the big screen again in ‘On the Basis of Sex’

January 9, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has so many fervent admirers, she’s practically become a cottage industry in America.

‘Desert Rats’: TV or not TV? That is the question

January 9, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Desert Rats was the first live play of the New Year I saw and is a kickass way to kick off 2019.

Nigerian cinema breaks out to wide audience with Netflix’s “Lionheart”

January 8, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It’s a slice of life into a woman’s journey for purpose with feel-good elements, and done with cultural flare that American audiences may not be used to seeing.