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[Spoiler-free] Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ reclaims narrative of Black soldiers in Vietnam

June 25, 2020 By Al Neal

If, as a civilian observer, you find it important to experience the realities and complexities of war and racism, then Spike Lee’s latest film Da 5 Bloods is required watching.

If Black Lives Matter, must ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone?

June 18, 2020 By Ed Rampell

Without a doubt, the four-hour Technicolor blockbuster about the antebellum South, Civil War and Reconstruction is problematic.

‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times

June 10, 2020 By David Fields

The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.

‘Planet of the Humans’: A documentary film of despair or hope?

May 11, 2020 By Len Yannielli

It’s disappointing that Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore would make such a low-quality documentary film.

‘Working Man’ film an important contribution toward understanding today’s American proletariat

May 4, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

In the course of touring the film festival circuit in advance of its theatrical release, Working Man garnered a number of awards.