Movies

‘Stealing Chaplin’: The great gravediggers

May 5, 2021 By Ed Rampell

It may not be City Lights, but 'Stealing Chaplin' has its own delights for general audiences and film buffs who will enjoy seeing Charlie back in the limelight.

A crowning achievement: Fairy tale vs. reality in ‘The Crown’

April 23, 2021 By Ed Rampell

Watching "The Crown" only strengthened my conviction that inherited wealth, privilege, and status are inherently evil, and that the British monarchy needs to be immediately abolished.

‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: The whole world is still watching

April 20, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is live streaming on Netflix and can also be viewed on the big screen in some of the newly opened theaters.

At PAFF: Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’ plus Angela Davis

March 11, 2021 By Ed Rampell

The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14.

‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ the story of revolutionary Black Panther Fred Hampton

February 22, 2021 By Brian W. Major

The film Judas and the Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, with a screenplay by Shaka King and Will Berson, shows how many in the late 1960s and ’70s in the U.S., and around the world...