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‘The Inconvenient Indian’ at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

October 6, 2020 By Bill Meyer

The jury that awarded the 90-minute film Best Canadian Feature described it as “a deeply thought-provoking and scorching indictment” of the treatment of First Nation people.

‘The Campaign of Miner Bo’ tells a sad, Quixotic West Virginia story

October 5, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

Viewers will draw their own conclusions about this little window into West Virginia life.

They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’

July 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe

For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.

New documentary film on Congresswoman Barbara Lee: She speaks for me!

July 13, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California’s 13th District, representing Oakland and Berkeley, voted against Joint Resolution 23, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, 2001.

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.