Movies
‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment
November 27, 2019Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.
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Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival shows films about the Palestinian struggle
May 13, 2019What makes this film one of the best on the subject, despite its grimness and despair, is its love and commitment for the people of Gaza, and its creative use of capturing some truly impassioned storytelling.
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Review: Donald Glover’s ‘Guava Island’: A musical romance opposing capitalist greed
April 15, 2019"Guava Island" is a musical drama that uses vibrant scenery and art to tell an anti-capitalist fable that condemns systemic greed.
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Review: Much ado about ‘Little’
April 12, 2019Perhaps this film made for the early teen crowd will be a hit, but adults might want to avoid it.
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Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’: Was he vice president or viceroy?
January 2, 2019Writer/director Adam McKay pursues a path of disrupting a straightforward docudrama narrative with highly filmic forays into satire, speculation, metaphor and more.
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