films
‘BlacKkKlansman’: Showcasing white women’s role in white supremacy
August 15, 2018BlacKkKlansman is heavy on male characters, yet Lee does a wonderful job showcasing the pivotal role of the women characters as well.
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‘How Jack Became Black’: Documentary explores race in America
July 3, 2018Steele posits the question, “Is race a truth or a power,” and if it’s the latter, then a power for who exactly?
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‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
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Radical 1942 anti-fascist docu-drama ‘Native Land’ to screen in L.A.
June 25, 2018This classic 1942 pro-union, anti-racist, anti-fascist docu-drama was the final film by the leftist collective Frontier Films and of Paul Robeson.
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Eco-messages abound in ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
June 22, 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s eco-theme raises it from being just a crowd pleasing special FX-laden spectacle to a more worthy movie meditation upon species going extinct.
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