“The Rock” isn’t as unlikely a setting for art as it might initially seem. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei exhibited his work there in 2014 and 2015. Now, in the New Industries Building, where Weiwei’s large-scale sculpture, sound, and mixed-media
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Viewers who need a quick illustration of the cultural divide between Black America and White America can turn to the protest that’s captured in the opening minutes of Ashley O’Shay’s award-winning documentary “Unapologetic.”  The events of the brunch protest at
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I walked out of church one Sunday afternoon and saw something which would change the course of my entire life.  Underneath a black rubber coroner’s tarp lay the form of a man, the toes of his nubuck blue Timberland boots
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“Let’s get physical,” the slogan for this year’s Dances With Films Los Angeles (hereafter “Dances”), exhorts the film festival’s potential attendees to come to Los Angeles’ TCL Chinese 6 Theatres to watch the Dances selections for 2021. Dances is not
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Billy Tipton Was No Ordinary Man Aisling Chin Yee and Chase Joynt’s engaging documentary “No Ordinary Man” opens in a way which differs from yet another bog-standard documentary about a musician.   You know the type of documentary format in question. 
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Dorav Paz and Yoav Paz’s historical thriller “Plan A” asks how far you’d go for revenge.  Max has survived Buchenwald.  But his wife and son were murdered in the Holocaust, and  neighbors stole his home.  Fellow Holocaust survivors the Nakam
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PBS’ “P.O.V.” Season 34 opener, C.J. Hunt’s documentary “The Neutral Ground,” begins with a 2015 shot of New Orleans’ Robert E. Lee statue.  Coupled with an incredibly tall pedestal, subsequent shots show how the monument dominates the Big Easy’s skyline.
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Prano Bailey-Bond’s film “Censor” inhabits several emotional nether spheres with varying degrees of residency.  Its setting is the outskirts of the world of extremely violent thrillers.  It may not be the world of Dario Argento’s or Lucio Fulci’s more artful
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