Miren Gutierrez

‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’: Acclaimed Indigenous film screened at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater

September 13, 2023 By Albert Bender

In the U.S. government’s long record of broken treaties, land theft, and genocide, the taking of the Black Hills ranks as perhaps as one of the most disgraceful episodes.

‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men

August 22, 2023 By Ed Rampell

Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.

‘Walid’ tracks down child traffickers in new Malaysian martial arts film

August 16, 2023 By Ed Rampell

The first hour emphasizes the importance of education and thoughtfully dramatizes the problem of the commodification of children and their abductions in the Third World.