film reviews

‘Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square’ film review

March 27, 2023 By Samuel Stein

At Cooper Square, people did the impossible: beat back the real estate speculators and aligned power brokers to take control of a piece of their neighborhood.

Nixon’s secret plan for ending the Vietnam War? Nuclear annihilation of Vietnam

March 24, 2023 By Michael Berkowitz

A review of PBS’ new film The Movement and the Madman.

‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me’ review: Raw unfiltered spotlight on mental health

March 10, 2023 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It's a doc that challenges the audience to reconsider views of mental health access, celebrity women, and respectability politics.

Diana Dors v. Marilyn Monroe: Class, crime, and the ‘Blonde Bombshell’

March 1, 2023 By Dennis Broe

An offering for Women's History Month.

‘Let It Be Morning,’ a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film

February 2, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Let Let It Be Morning serve as yet another warning, a lovingly crafted, humanly noble alarum, of the Armageddon to come.