In “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the desire for home is at once existential and literal, a matter of self and safety, being and belonging. This is, of course, part of the story of being black in the United States.
Roger Ross Williams cinematic tour de force proceeds to tell the story of racism through the colonial period up to today’s Black Lives Matter struggles against police brutality and more.
Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon explores the rot beneath the myth of American exceptionalism.
Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s most acclaimed poets and a well-known voice of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements. A powerful writer and trailblazing activist, Giovanni’s words have inspired the masses for decades.
For the AppleTV+ production “The Pigeon Tunnel,” documentary filmmaker Errol Morris again captured elusive quarry by recording four days of interviews with John le Carré (neé David Cornwell) in fall 2019; they proved to be the acclaimed author’s last
A Zombie Film that Still Speaks to Our Current World, and with Quite a Bit of Class
In Pablo Larrain's new film the villain is not a fictional one. He is General Augusto Pinochet, the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and died in 2006 still with the blood of thousands on his hands.
The SAG-AFTRA strike comes at a time when polls suggest unions are more popular in the U.S. than at any time since 1965, and the labor movement is experiencing a resurgence of organizing. These 5 films reveal some of the history of this organizing.
The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has played out for individuals and all of humanity.
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