Culture
Progressive Cinema: Tribeca Film Festival highlights
June 8, 2015This is the second in a series of reports from the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
Read moreSci-fi in “Tomorrowland” makes a good point
June 5, 2015It's refreshing to see science fiction used for something that isn't dystopian!
Read moreProgressive cinema clips: Cinetopia, Robeson film, “Chiraq”
June 4, 2015Detroit area film lovers are being treated to a new version of the Cinetopia Film Festival, now in its fourth year and growing rapidly.
Read moreA would-be Gorbachev in the People’s Republic: “The Chinese Mayor”
June 4, 2015This film is an insider's look at Geng Yanbo, the reform-minded mayor of Datong, one of the People's Republic of China's most polluted cities.
Read moreThe cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy”
June 3, 2015The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
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