Click here to listen to the interview. One of the most important points that XCLD: THE STORY OF CANCEL CULTURE makes is that the phenomenon isn’t new. It’s just had many names over the years. Think being called a Commie during the McCarthy Witch Hunts, or what happened to Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. Why… Read More »
TIME OF THE HEATHEN
There could be no better time to re-discover Peter Kass’ lost black-and-white masterpiece, TIME OF THE HEATHEN. Taking as its theme man’s inhumanity to man (and woman), Kass uses the microcosm of racism as well as the macrocosm of society blindly following rules, legal and cultural, to give us a searing indictment of humanity as… Read More »
LIMBO
LIMBO begins with an Aboriginal painting that gradually fades into the cobbled landscape of the sere and foreboding landscape of the Australian outback. That is where Travis Hurley (Simon Baker) has been sent to look into re-opening the cold case of a missing Aboriginal girl who vanished from the eponymous town of Limbo twenty years… Read More »
AMERICAN: AN ODYSSEY TO 1947 — Danny Wu Interview
Click here to listen to the interview with Danny Wu. In AMERICAN: AN ODYSSEY TO 1947, Danny Wu takes an unexpected turn, jarring at first, but ultimately illuminating. After spending time providing a context for Welles’ career that presents a radically different approach to the usual tale of a wunderkind who, in his own words,… Read More »
NANNY — Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. Led by a stunning performance by Anna Diop in the title role of Aisha, an undocumented immigrant working to bring her young son over from Senegal, NANNY is a powerful yet subtle film that uses horror as a way of addressing so much more, in this case, the… Read More »
LOUDMOUTH — Josh Alexander Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing to know about Josh Alexander’s documentary on the Rev. Al Sharpton is that it was the Rev himself who picked the title. That came up early on in my conversation with Alexander on December 1, 2022. One thing I appreciated in Alexander’s insightful and incisive… Read More »
GOD’S COUNTRY — Julian Higgins Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. One of the most unsettling moments in Julian Higgins’ GOD’S COUNTRY is a sequence in which the conflict that escalates between college professor Sandra Guidry and some local hunters comes to a head. They had taken offence when refused the right to park on her land, and after… Read More »
I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. I’ve lived in San Francisco for many, many years, and yet I’d never heard the story of Charlie Walker, an African-American man with a dream and a real gift for playing the system against itself. I was delighted to learn about that part of my city’s history… Read More »
EMERGENCY
EMERGENCY starts with Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) attending a class called Blasphemy and Taboos, taught by a perky British woman who, after reminding her students that their syllabus contained a trigger warning about this class, confronts them with the n-word. Not just projecting it onto the classroom screen in huge letters,… Read More »
CANDYMAN
CANDYMAN wants to do more than creep you out with mere gore. To that end, this sequel to the original does more than ignore the three subsequent films in that previous franchise, though it does, like those other films, drench the screen in blood from time to time. Here, though, the true horror that it… Read More »
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