films
‘Kinderland’: A documentary visit to two century-old secular Jewish summer camps
June 24, 2022The film short Kinderland tells the story of two camps in upstate New York that have cultivated social activists for almost a century and are still in existence today.
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‘A Brother’s Whisper’: A sobering epiphany of Black American life in America
June 15, 2022The film unfolds with an indivisible mixture of sobering reality and epiphany.
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Nostalgia, propaganda, recruitment
June 7, 2022Top Gun: Maverick is part of the tradition of legacy sequels for properties from the 1980s that we’ve been seeing for the last decade-plus.
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‘Crimes of the Future’ review: A freakishly seductive voyage into the folly of man
May 31, 2022It’s a bizarre ride of a movie that may be too weird for some and too unclear in its intention for others.
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Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin: Revisiting ‘The Great Dictator’
April 15, 2022On April 16, 133 years after the birth of Charlie Chaplin, his iconic comedy-drama condemning fascism remains powerfully relevant.
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