Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.
Remember last year’s ...
30 August 2017
Losing your wife is tough enough. Imagine losing your wife and subsequently being told you’re no longer fit to raise your son.
That’s the situation the title character faces in Menashe, an...
10 August 2017
Dr. Bob Fitrakis reviews the film; Detroit (2017); Amidst the chaos of the...
05 August 2017
Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty have we seen so much attention paid to poor white people. The iconic Life magazine photo of Johnson sitting on the front porch of a poor white Appalachian family...
01 August 2017
I wasn’t bowled over by last year’s Ghostbusters remake, which seemed like a waste of a good cast. Even some of its fans seemed to like it mainly because it broke new cinematic ground by portraying women as competent professionals...
07 July 2017
In 1926, W.E.B. Du Bois said “The Plays of a real Negro theatre must be…About us…By us…For us…Near us.”
This is the philosophy that is behind the 5th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival (CBTF). The CBTF event is organized to...
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