films
The new ‘Reagan’ film is an ahistorical conservative fairytale
September 6, 2024Waxing poetic about the “good old days” of Ronald Reagan is absurd.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Viggo Mortensen as Lord of the Gunslingers
June 5, 2024The thoughtful, left-leaning Western is well-acted and well-made, and in his second time up at bat as a writer/director, Viggo Mortensen proves that he’s much more than a mere lord of the rings.
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’: Fast, furious, and feminist!
May 31, 2024The self-declared feminist director’s new movie Furiosa, the latest installment of his Mad Max saga, is clearly women-driven.
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‘Monsters of the American Cinema’: Creatures from the Black and sexual lagoon
May 13, 2024St. Croix’s play dramatizes this above all else: What we have in common is more powerful than what keeps us apart.
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