Culture

“Selma” will inspire you

January 16, 2015 By Frank Chapman

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.

“Blackhat”: The thinker’s thriller

January 16, 2015 By Ed Rampell

Director Mann has made the tried and true thriller genre timely and cutting edge, as well as sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat exciting.

Hello to Godard’s latest film, “Goodbye to Language”

January 15, 2015 By Ed Rampell

To paraphrase TV's 1960s sci-fi series "The Outer Limits," there is nothing wrong with your screen. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

Hope is the root of activism

January 14, 2015 By Rev. Jim Conn

Activism like that takes courage and wisdom. It emerges out of deep places in the human spirit, the interior felt-life experience expressed by the arts and also by religion.

“Little Big Man”: A movie you might have missed

January 13, 2015 By Joseph Zimmermann

The film put an end to the portrayal of the settling of the West as a bugle-blowing heroic exercise of taming the savage inhabitants.