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More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

October 21, 2020 By Ed Rampell

With Kalewa, independent Hawaii filmmaker Mitchel Viernes is reminiscent of Jules Verne, as he takes the South Seas Cinema genre into outer space.

Malcolm and Martin come to the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

October 21, 2020 By Bill Meyer

Pastor Martin Luther King was ahead of his time challenging the system.

‘The Inconvenient Indian’ at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

October 6, 2020 By Bill Meyer

The jury that awarded the 90-minute film Best Canadian Feature described it as “a deeply thought-provoking and scorching indictment” of the treatment of First Nation people.

Review: ‘Crip Camp,’ an inspiring flick on the struggles of the disabled

August 13, 2020 By John Bachtell

As so, the fight for full equality for people with disabilities continues.

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.