films
‘See You Yesterday’: A Netflix film about police killings of African Americans
February 10, 2020First-time feature filmmakers, director Stefon Bristol and his co-writer Fredrica Bailey have aimed for, and largely achieved an almost impossible goal.
Read moreKirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled
February 6, 2020“I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”
Read more‘Miss Americana’: Taylor Swift doc establishes the personal as political
February 4, 2020It would be easy to dismiss Taylor Swift as a shallow pop sensation with no influence on politics, but that assessment would be wrong.
Read more‘The Traitor’: How one man brought the Italian Cosa Nostra down
January 31, 2020The cinematography is highly appealing, making a film about some despicable characters eminently watchable.
Read moreF.W. Murnau’s ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ has thrilling new score
January 31, 2020This is a film town But there’s no period at the end of that sentence because L.A. is so much more.
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