Movies
A crowning achievement: Fairy tale vs. reality in ‘The Crown’
April 23, 2021Watching "The Crown" only strengthened my conviction that inherited wealth, privilege, and status are inherently evil, and that the British monarchy needs to be immediately abolished.
Read more‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: The whole world is still watching
April 20, 2021The Trial of the Chicago 7 is live streaming on Netflix and can also be viewed on the big screen in some of the newly opened theaters.
Read moreAt PAFF: Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’ plus Angela Davis
March 11, 2021The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14.
Read more‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ the story of revolutionary Black Panther Fred Hampton
February 22, 2021The film Judas and the Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, with a screenplay by Shaka King and Will Berson, shows how many in the late 1960s and ’70s in the U.S., and around the world...
Read more‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021A poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival
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