film review
Amy Poehler’s new film ‘Moxie’: Growing up female in 2020
March 12, 2021Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film Moxie is not perfect. But it is very, very good. It’s a smart, funny, entertaining look at how growing up female in 2020 is similar and different from growing up in...
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‘Back of the Moon’: A Noirish apartheid-era South African film
March 3, 2021Director/co-writer and Oscar nominee Angus Gibson’s Back of the Moon is another example of why I love PAFF—the Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival. If not for this festival film buffs like moi probably would...
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Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Toward ‘a social order worthy of the human race’
March 3, 2021Remembering Red Rosa on her 150th birthday.
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Getting it right on Hampton, the Panthers, and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
March 2, 2021Joe Sims makes the case that a recent People's World film review missed the mark on some important historical details.
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‘Nomadland’: Moving on with America’s homeless van dwellers
March 1, 2021In Nomadland, Frances McDormand, the pre-eminent actor of our generation, has sketched a complex, but all too familiar character at the edge of society.
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