arts and culture
‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
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‘On the Record’ documentary lays bare music industry racial and sexual politics
June 3, 2020During an election year when the role Black women play in society receives lots of attention, this documentary adds another rarely seen dimension to that discussion.
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Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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‘A Clear Shot’ shows diversity on police forces a good thing
May 28, 2020New feature film shows how ethnic, racial, and gender diversity on a police force often helps to avert worst-case scenarios and turn events in a less lethal direction.
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Money for nothing and gold for free on Netflix and Spanish TV
May 27, 2020Netflix has bet heavily on Spanish film and television, most likely after the European and global success of Money Heist, having set up their European headquarters in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
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