Culture
“Moonlight,” “Neruda,” Viggo Mortensen among 2016 Progie Award winners
February 27, 2017The Progies are the “un-Oscar,” the people’s “alternative Academy Awards.”
Read more“Fun Home”: Emotional autobiographical musical shows how “it got better”
February 24, 2017"Fun Home" traces the progress and emergence of a creative talent.
Read moreTen films that shook the world: The Russian Revolution centennial
February 22, 2017The programmer and co-presenter of “Ten Films That Shook the World” is film historian and critic Ed Rampell.
Read moreJapanese American internment commemorated by a new oratorio
February 21, 2017The project was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, that resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese...
Read moreThe not so “Great Wall”
February 21, 2017Put your 3D glasses on and your brains into neutral to watch this vapid but eye-popping big budget picture which, at $135-150 million, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in China.
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