films
‘Rustin’ review: A vital spotlight on an overlooked and complex civil rights hero
October 6, 2023The openly gay, former Quaker, one-time communist, Black man was no marginal figure to the movement, but one of the key players who helped to organize the historic 1963 March on Washington.
Read more‘Freud on Cocaine’: The dramatized future of a delusion
September 14, 2023Although sometimes over the top, Howard Skora and his cast shed new light on one of humanity’s deepest thinkers by bringing Sigmund Freud, warts and all, back to life.
Read more‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’: Not a bomb!
August 30, 2023Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm, is an excellent film, a suspenseful thriller raising important issues.
Read more‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.
Read moreWriters and actors challenge the corporate lords of film and television
July 28, 2023One of the main claims of the writers is that they can no longer afford to live in a city they helped build as Los Angeles rents skyrocket.
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