films

They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’

July 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe

For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.

New documentary film on Congresswoman Barbara Lee: She speaks for me!

July 13, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California’s 13th District, representing Oakland and Berkeley, voted against Joint Resolution 23, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, 2001.

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.

[Spoiler-free] Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ reclaims narrative of Black soldiers in Vietnam

June 25, 2020 By Al Neal

If, as a civilian observer, you find it important to experience the realities and complexities of war and racism, then Spike Lee’s latest film Da 5 Bloods is required watching.

If Black Lives Matter, must ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone?

June 18, 2020 By Ed Rampell

Without a doubt, the four-hour Technicolor blockbuster about the antebellum South, Civil War and Reconstruction is problematic.