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Having screened Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” for students for decades, there were two years in which people protested that it was an artifact of a bygone era. In the first two years of Obama’s presidency, students–of...

You might not turn to Apple TV+ looking for the next great American musical. You might not seek such a thing from the creator of “Bob’s Burgers,” either. Yet “Central Park,” Apple TV+’s first foray into...

Much has been written regarding the positive environmental effects COVID-19 has had as fewer people make long-term travels or daily commutes in their cars. Make no mistake, though, the damage has been done and cannot be...

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the May edition of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for this issue is “Secrets & Confessions” and, in addition to this essay below by Frank Falisi on...

For much of my adult life the world has felt like it’s been a hairsbreadth from burning entirely.  My outrage has been a constant this whole time and the only things that soothes it even slightly—activism,...

There’s something so compassionate and warm about Jacob Hamilton’s “Jump Shot,” a film that is on one level about the history of basketball but is really more about legacy and impact. It’s a loving ode not...

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the leading film festival event in Central and Eastern Europe, was cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the festival programmers will be screening 16 of its selections...

Magnolia Pictures’ virtual screening series, “A Few of Our Favorite Docs,” continues today with the premiere of Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 muckraking doc about the captivity of killer whales, “Blackfish” (watch it here). As with each of the films...

“We all lose when brilliant women go away.” Kiera Mayo, journalist for Source Oscar-nominated filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, singly and together, have tackled very difficult subjects in their documentaries, from sexual assault on college...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Come to Daddy””District 9″”I Will Follow””Public Enemies””Quartet””Soul Surfer””Trumbo””Uncut Gems””United 93″”Wadjda” 10 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Dance, Girl, Dance” (Criterion) Dorothy Azner was the only female director of the Hollywood studio system in the...