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Saving democracy requires more of Netflix’s ‘Sunday Best’
July 25, 2025Documentary shows how Ed Sullivan helped a nation see the wealth of talent and ability in the Black community.
Read more‘American Primeval’: The prophets and the profits
February 24, 2025‘American Primeval’ is a serious, sophisticated, multi-layered look at the forces that developed the West.
Read moreChurchill at War: Not my anti-fascist hero!
December 13, 2024I’ll stick with my own anti-fascist heroes, starting with the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Read more‘El Conde’: Count Pinochet the Vampire!
September 28, 2023Academy Award-nominated Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, Jackie, No, Spencer) and his longtime collaborator writer Guillermo Calderón have just released their new film El Conde (The Count). It’s a robust, bawdy, very funny, slightly over-the-top reimagining...
Read more‘6ixtynin9’: Sex, drugs and rock and roll!
September 21, 2023Ratanaruang has taken his surprise hit film of 1999 and deftly cut and stitched it into an eight-episode reprise of the eponymously named film.
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