Movies

Hollywood Heritage celebrates 100 years of filmmaking in Hawaii

June 6, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Ed Rampell will give a video presentation with laser focus on Hollywood feature films and television productions that are shot and set in Hawai'i.

Entrapment, food wars, and capitalism in three films

May 15, 2014 By Bill Meyer

A film that debuted at the recent Tribeca Film Festival offers compelling evidence that our government has gone too far in "protecting" its citizens.

“Belle”: young love in shadow of the slave trade

May 14, 2014

This historical drama takes up Belle's first encounters with young love, the stratified class system of the times, and disgusting forms of chauvinism.

The war on film

May 7, 2014 By Joseph Zimmermann

As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.

“The Galapagos Affair, Satan Came to Eden” film review

April 30, 2014 By Ed Rampell

The atavistic impulse to "get away from it all" and "return to nature" has been a literary theme since Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson cast away on desert islands.