Movies
‘CAM’: Sex worker empowerment through horror genre
November 21, 2018A common saying goes that sex work is considered the oldest profession, yet it also happens to be one where the workers are often the most exploited. Exploitation and safety on the job is a constant...
Read more‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ popular Christmas movie, great new American opera
November 20, 2018It’s a critical hit, written in a popular late Romantic and thoroughly American idiom, studded with little musical quotes from familiar holiday noels, high school graduation anthems, and the wild Mekee-Mekee that recalls the dance crazes...
Read moreNew films ‘We the Coyotes’ and ‘You Can Choose Your Family’
October 1, 2018Two films premiered at the LA Film Festival this past week having to do with families, which is familiar territory for the cinematic art.
Read moreCuban film ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ to screen in L.A.
July 20, 2018Marx@200: The Marxist Movie Series, continues July 26th with a screening of one of socialist Cuba’s most popular films, co-director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s international award-winning Strawberry and Chocolate. This 1993 film, which premiered in Havana and...
Read moreTwo South Seas cinema superstars open in ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Siberia’
July 13, 2018Skyscraper It never fails to amaze (and amuse) how movies mirror reality as emanations of the collective psyche. Just days after the premiere of The First Purge, about a race war aimed at exterminating African Americans...
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