film review

Film review:  ‘Chronicle of a Disappearance’

One major takeaway of the Palestine Writes literature festival, hosted in Philadelphia Sept. 22 – 24, was the essential connection…

October 12, 2023

Movie review: ‘Barbie’

I went to see a movie that the right wing hates but that has become a cultural phenomenon. I went to…

August 31, 2023

Film review: ‘137 Shots’

137 Shots” is a new documentary now streaming on Netflix. Directed by Michael Milano, it documents the 2012 execution-style murders…

December 24, 2021

Film review ‘Attica’ explores heroic prison uprising

The Attica documentary, co-directed by Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry, was released by Showtime in early November. The two-hour film…

December 16, 2021

Film review: “Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office”

“Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office,” is a 45-minute-long film made in 1980 by Tami Gold,…

January 6, 2021

‘The State of Texas vs. Melissa’–a WW film review

“What I miss from the world is my children, them sitting around the kitchen table, me feeding them my food…

November 5, 2020

Film review — “Belly of the Beast”: Sterilizations inside the world’s largest women’s prison

With the world spotlight currently on the forced sterilizations of migrant women inside the ICE detention center in Georgia, the…

October 23, 2020

‘Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution’ – a WW movie review

This year the award-winning movie “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” was released and can now be viewed on Netflix’s streaming…

September 18, 2020

‘Harriet’ — A powerful depiction of the legendary abolitionist

Institutionalized bigotry, be it racism, gender oppression or LGBTQ2S+ oppression, has impacted every sector of U.S. society. The form may…

November 13, 2019

Film review of <em>Wind River</em>: True-to-life story exposes crimes against MMIWG2S

Wind River opens with a young woman running barefoot through the snow in the mountains. She falls, crying and gasping,…

December 6, 2018