The undemocratic, behind-closed-doors manner in which the strike was called off speaks volumes about the SAG-AFTRA bureaucracy and every other union leadership.
Trump was met Wednesday with loud boos, as well as cheers, from what presumably was an audience stacked with his supporters. His intended appearance at the performance had been well-advertised.
These are far-reaching and unprecedented moves, which are setting the stage for a massive confrontation between the government and broad layers of the population.
The headline of Monday's perspective referred to the well-known 1964 film Seven Days in May, which imagined a conspiracy by “a military-political cabal to take over the government of the United States.”
Here again, a small group of guests arrives at a lavish location for a week of relaxation, daily “wellness treatments,” gourmet meals and live entertainment.
One of the five most-watched debuts on HBO Max, The Pitt has already been renewed for a second season and widely discussed on TikTok and other social media.
The documentary shows the settlers in their role as the Israeli state’s advanced guard in the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of the Palestinians.
The drama is made all the more convincing by fine acting, including by Edison Alcaide as Jean Charles, and the fact that the filmmakers worked closely with the De Menezes family.
Kriv Stender’s dramatic feature is limited by its perfunctory examination of the explosive political developments in Egypt that preceded Greste’s incarceration.
There are many difficult, urgent social, political and cultural problems at present. And there are numerous filmmakers willing to address them, to one extent or another.
To find in reality the basis for changing the existing state of things, the artist has to approach reality with anger and partisanship.
The phrase “precarious work” may be metaphorical in some cases, but in the unstable and perilous existence Souleymane leads the “precariousness” is real and ever-present.
Britain’s Apartheid Apologists was published by CAGE, set up in 2003 to raise awareness of the plight of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay. CAGE campaigns against torture, imprisonment without trial, anti-terror laws and similar injustices.
The veteran British band (1976) has lots of fight left, but hope is another matter.
The remastered edition of Playing the Fool, the official live album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant originally recorded in 1976, reveals the extraordinary creativity and musicianship of the five band members.
Davis’s music, an eclectic blend of jazz, blues, classical and hip hop, serves as a background to the story, reinforcing moods of anguish and tension as the young men and their families go through their ordeal.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
