films
Hollywood studio bosses low-ball SAG-AFTRA, then walk out of bargaining session
October 13, 2023168,000 strikers will remain on the picket lines.
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‘Rustin’ review: A vital spotlight on an overlooked and complex civil rights hero
October 6, 2023The openly gay, former Quaker, one-time communist, Black man was no marginal figure to the movement, but one of the key players who helped to organize the historic 1963 March on Washington.
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‘Freud on Cocaine’: The dramatized future of a delusion
September 14, 2023Although sometimes over the top, Howard Skora and his cast shed new light on one of humanity’s deepest thinkers by bringing Sigmund Freud, warts and all, back to life.
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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’: Not a bomb!
August 30, 2023Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm, is an excellent film, a suspenseful thriller raising important issues.
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‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge 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.
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