films
Rediscovering radical Palestinian cinema as hope for today and the future
October 2, 2024The title of Terri Ginsberg’s monograph Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema hardly hints at the theoretical breadth and depth of the work which is incredibly prescient in these perilous...
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‘The Front Room’ review: Religious trauma and Black womanhood collide for wild horror ride
September 6, 2024Terrifying imagery, body horror and fear are woven into a story defining womanhood.
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The new ‘Reagan’ film is an ahistorical conservative fairytale
September 6, 2024Waxing poetic about the “good old days” of Ronald Reagan is absurd.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Viggo Mortensen as Lord of the Gunslingers
June 5, 2024The thoughtful, left-leaning Western is well-acted and well-made, and in his second time up at bat as a writer/director, Viggo Mortensen proves that he’s much more than a mere lord of the rings.
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