Arts Review

Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen: An understated examination of grief

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Tiger Eyes, based on the book by Judy Blume and directed by Lawrence Blume, is a sensitive look at personal loss.

Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell: Incompleteness as a problem

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Frances Ha and Stories We Tell are articulate and well-made films. What’s missing from them, however, is as interesting as what’s there.

Nashville Symphony threatened by foreclosure

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra is the latest prominent US musical institution to face the threat of dissolution, as its biggest creditor, the Bank of America, has begun foreclosure proceedings.

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

French duo Daft Punk—Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born 1975)—have returned with their first full-length album since Human After All (2005).

Once again, on the filthiness of the makers of Zero Dark Thirty

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A leaked government report reveals that Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark Boal attended a CIA awards ceremony in June 2011.

Censorship and complicity at the Venice Biennale

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Artist Jeremy Deller has withdrawn a work of art, criticising the monarchy, from the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale, at the request from Foreign Office-backed British council.

New on US television: Arrested Development (again), Behind the Candelabra and Family Tree

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The much anticipated new season of Arrested Development was released last week. Steven Soderbergh’s biography of Liberace also aired on HBO. Christopher Guest’s Family Tree is a new and promising series.

La Sirga and In the Fog: When will the “fog of war” settle?

Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

La Sirga from Colombia and In the Fog, from a Belarusian filmmaker, deal with painful wartime situations, with varying degrees of success.

The plight of African boat people in The Pirogue, and other films

Mon, 27 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Moussa Touré’s The Pirogue is a fictional account of West Africans seeking to escape grinding poverty in a desperate voyage. Also, Joanne Laurier comments on documentaries about the Beatles’ secretary and the Chinese art scene.

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, dead at 74

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of the 1960s rock band The Doors, died May 20 at the age of 74.

Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model: In defense of art and the artistic personality

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

At least two films at the San Francisco festival treated art, the artistic personality, or both, in a compelling fashion.

An interview with Jem Cohen, director of Museum Hours: “Art is something people do like breathing.”

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

David Walsh spoke to Jem Cohen, director of Museum Hours, during the recent San Francisco film festival.

Milestone Films’ Mary Pickford: Rags and Riches Collection: The inventor of movie acting

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Milestone Films’ 2012 release of Mary Pickford: Rags and Riches Collection reacquaints contemporary audiences with silent film star Mary Pickford’s lasting achievements.

Let the Fire Burn and The East: The MOVE bombing in 1985 and present-day anarchism

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Let the Fire Burn, about the police bombing of the MOVE compound in Philadelphia in 1985, was one of the most outstanding and challenging documentaries at the San Francisco film festival this year.

Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A clash of rival “fundamentalisms”

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Mira Nair’s latest film provides a vivid but limited view of the tension between the US and Pakistan

The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The 56th San Francisco International Film Festival recently concluded. The event this year screened 158 films from 51 countries, including 67 fiction features, 28 documentary features and 63 short films.

A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In the 1925 novel, the various desperate and delusional relationships set off a tragic series of events, which result in death and misery for the upstarts and have-nots. The wealthy characters alone escape unscathed.

HBO’s production of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones unfolds a violent, complex tale

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The epic fantasy series takes place on two fictional continents, Westeros and Essos, over the course of many years and involves a civil war over the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.

New revelations about filmmakers’ collaboration with CIA on Zero Dark Thirty

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

New information has surfaced about the level of cooperation between Mark Boal, who wrote the script for Kathryn Bigelow’s pro-torture Zero Dark Thirty, and the US intelligence apparatus.

HBO’s Phil Spector: David Mamet’s mythological tale

Sat, 04 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Playwright David Mamet wrote and directed the docudrama centering on the 2007 murder trial of famed record producer Phil Spector.

Oceanside, California exhibition of painter Arun Prem

Thu, 02 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Oceanside, California public library recently presented an exhibition of the works of Indian-born painter Arun Prem.

Tyler, the Creator’s Wolf: Hiding from reality behind a mask of cynicism

Thu, 02 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Wolf is Tyler, The Creator’s third studio album, released on Sony Music Entertainment in April this year.

David Mamet’s Race in Toronto

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In Race, a wealthy white man is accused of raping a black woman. He turns to a law firm run by two male partners—one white and one black—and asks them to defend him.

Country music legend George Jones dead at 81

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Legendary country singer George Jones died in Nashville on April 26. A remarkable performer, Jones was a significant figure in American popular music during the second half of the 20th century.

Finks dramatizes the 1950s anti-communist blacklist

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A play based on the lives of Jack and Madeline Gilford makes the 1950s witch-hunts and the struggle against them come alive.

42: A tribute to integrating baseball falls short

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

One of baseball’s most iconic moments, the breaking of baseball’s color line in 1947 by Jackie Robinson as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is at the center of Brian Helgeland’s new film.

The Flat: A family examines a Nazi-Zionist friendship

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A documentary about a German-Jewish family and its emigration to Palestine 75 years ago raises vital historical issues about the nature and role of Zionism.

Old Hats from Bill Irwin and David Shiner: An evening with the clowns

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Old Hats is a highly entertaining night out at the theater for people of all ages. Veteran performers Bill Irwin and David Shiner splendidly bounce off each other for the one hour and 50 minute show.

The Place Beyond the Pines: Fathers and sons

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The new film from director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, 2010), set in and around Schenectady, New York, is made up of several interconnected stories that take place over the course of fifteen years.

SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 2

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas has grown from a local independent music showcase into one of the largest music festivals in the world. This is the second article on the 2013 festival.

No from Chile and The Sapphires from Australia

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

No by Chilean director Pablo Larraín is the last in a trilogy of films about life under the Pinochet dictatorship. The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair, centers on an all-Aboriginal female singing group in the late 1960s.

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Untold History is a 10-part documentary series that premiered on Showtime in November 2012. Its stated aim is to shed light on little known or deliberately obscured aspects of American history.

Remembering Cleotha Staples and the Staple Singers

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Singer Cleotha Staples of the popular gospel, folk and R&B group the Staple Singers, died recently at the age of 78.

SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 1

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

South by Southwest in Austin, Texas has grown from a local independent music showcase attracting some 700 registered attendees in 1987 into one of the largest music festivals in the world.

The Gatekeepers from Israel and a film version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Dror Moreh’s new documentary is a glimpse into the crisis wracking Israeli society. Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles has brought Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel to the screen.

Letters to Trotsky: A remarkable play at Bielefeld’s Theaterlabor in Germany

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A new play, staged by an experimental ensemble in Bielefeld, movingly recreates the hopes of and hardships suffered by the Soviet population in the early 1920s.

Letter from a reader on Zelary, a Czech film set in World War II

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Zelary is a remarkable 2003 film from the Czech Republic, directed by Ondrej Ontran (and available from Netflix and Amazon).

Kino Video’s Grifﬁth Masterworks: Watching movies become art

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Kino Video collection entitled Grifﬁth Masterworks provides an opportunity to watch pioneer filmmaker D.W. Grifﬁth invent much of what came to be known as the grammar of cinema.

A Place At The Table: A damning picture of hunger, with feeble conclusions

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The recent documentary shows that the hunger and nutrition crisis in the United States has steadily increased through both Republican and Democratic administrations since the 1970s.

Bryan Wizemann’s About Sunny (Think of Me) released on video on demand

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

One of the most compelling films screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, Think of Me, directed by American filmmaker Bryan Wizemann, now retitled About Sunny, is finally available.

Fat Jon’s Rapture Kontrolle— Hip hop with an emotional content

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Rapture Kontrolle is the eighth studio instrumental album by hip hop/electronic producer/song writer Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician (born John Marshall in 1969), released in 2012 on Ample Soul Recordings, under the alias Maurice Galactica.

The feverish pulse of the early 20th century: George Bellows, American modernist

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The exhibition of Bellows’ work offers a vivid picture of the burgeoning American powerhouse during the first decades of the twentieth century.

No holds barred: Two German documentaries— I Will Not Lose and Metamorphoses

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

One of the documentaries examines the former East German sports programme and the other the terrible consequences of the 1957 nuclear accident near Kyshtym in the USSR.

“The Weimar Touch”: An interview with Rainer Rother, director of the 2013 Berlin film festival’s retrospective

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

WSWS reporters spoke recently to the head of the Deutsche Kinemathek (German Cinematheque) and the curator of this year’s Berlin film festival retrospective on German films of the Weimar era (1919-1933).

Detroit techno artist Robert Hood’s Motor: Nighttime World Volume 3

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The latest album from Robert Hood is a collection of a dozen instrumental renderings of the decline of the artist’s hometown.

Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker detained at Los Angeles airport

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Emad Burnat, co-director of 5 Broken Cameras, was detained and threatened with deportation by US immigration officials on arrival in Los Angeles before last week’s Oscar ceremony.

Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance: An indictment of Western aid to Haiti, but…

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The latest film by Haitian-born director Raoul Peck focuses on the aid operation organised by the US and Western powers in the wake of the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010.

An honest Russian citizen: Boris Khlebnikov’s A Long and Happy Life

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The film depicts the futile struggle of a small farmer in the Russian provinces against corrupt local authorities.

Van Cliburn, US pianist who achieved fame at Moscow competition, dead at 78

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A musician who became world-famous more than half a century ago, Van Cliburn had a career that was noteworthy, even if he never achieved the potential that seemed possible in his youth.

What Ken Loach makes of The Spirit of ’45

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The veteran British filmmaker’s new documentary deals with the nationalisation of sections of industry carried out by the Labour government following the Second World War.

Letters on the Academy Awards

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of letters in response to “The 2013 Academy Awards: Mediocrities by and large, and at their worst.”

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is an ensemble that brings together Palestinian and Israeli musicians in concert halls around the globe.

The Plague: The “loneliness, strength, humanity and beauty” of ordinary people

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Plague (La Plaga) from Spain, directed by Neus Ballús, was one of the most satisfying films at the 63rd Berlinale.

Set for Life: The effects of recession on an older generation

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This documentary examines the lives of several over-50 workers who have lost their jobs since the 2007-2008 economic collapse.

The 2013 Academy Awards: Mediocrities by and large, and at their worst

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The 2013 Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night was one of those public events that diminishes virtually everyone involved, including the more or less “innocent bystanders.”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master: The limits of making it up as you go along

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, The Master, a World War II US Navy veteran facing an uncertain future is attracted to a quasi-religious movement and its charismatic leader.

A comment from a reader in Uruguay on Lincoln, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A reader notes the comments of certain South American critics, part of a global phenomenon, in praise of Quentin Tarantino and Kathryn Bigelow.

Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Channel Orange, the debut from Frank Ocean, was one of the more intriguing albums released in 2012.

The intellectually bankrupt defenders of Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The release of Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained in the latter part of 2012 ignited an intense and still ongoing media debate on the films’ respective merits and related historical issues.

Unresolved issues in today’s filmmaking

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A number of interesting films from central and eastern Europe were awarded prizes in Berlin this year, but, unfortunately, they were not characteristic of the festival as a whole.

Not Fade Away: “Oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy”

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In David Chase’s film, a young man and his friends pursue various dreams, or fail to, in suburban New Jersey in the mid-1960s.

Steven Soderbergh to retire after Side Effects?: Problems of independent filmmaking

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A new antidepressant has unexpected side effects that unravel the lives of a psychiatrist and his patient in American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s most recent—and possibly last—feature film.

Donald Byrd, extraordinary jazz trumpeter, dies at 80

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Donald Byrd, a trumpet master associated with the post-bebop jazz that emerged in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s, died last week at the age of 80.

Netflix’s US remake of House of Cards stands up despite weaknesses

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Staring Kevin Spacey as Congressman Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, the new production of House of Cards is a largely well-translated version of the UK original.

Girl on Fire—Alicia Keys closes her eyes to the world

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The latest album by the popular R&B singer.

Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet: Aging and the artist

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The movie concerns itself with a group of retired opera singers and musicians housed in an elegant manor in pastoral Britain.

The Impossible: A narrow view of a major disaster

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Impossible, directed by Juan Antonia Bayona, is the story of one British family’s experience in the carnage and destruction of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

A reply to Michael Moore’s defense of Zero Dark Thirty

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Bigelow’s deplorable pro-CIA film has provoked criticism and outrage, including in the Hollywood film community itself.

The Green Corn Rebellion: 1935 novel about an episode in the American class struggle

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

William Cunningham’s The Green Corn Rebellion offers a fictionalized account of an August 1917 uprising in Oklahoma against conscription during the First World War.

Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land: A deal with the devil?

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The film portrays the conflict between a fictional energy company and residents of a small Pennsylvania town over whether “fracking” will be allowed in their community.

Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables: Social misery, with a vengeance

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Director Tom Hooper returns with a film version of the well-known musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic 1862 novel.

Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The filmmaker and her screenwriter Mark Boal, in their political blindness and misreading of the current state of American public opinion, thought they could get away with murder, as it were.

Revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy (1937): The American dream turns sour

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

At the center of Odets’ Depression-era play is Joe Bonaparte (Seth Numrich), a gifted violinist. Bonaparte, however, is equally adept as a boxer and therein lies the play’s central drama.

The impact of drawing: Two exhibitions of master drawings in New York

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The two extraordinary shows are reminders that drawings offer a pleasure quite distinct from that represented by the grander mediums of painting and sculpture.

Hitchcock: Small change, for the most part

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Sacha Gervasi’s new film focuses on the making of Psycho (1960), one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best known works.

Superhero graphic novels from DC and Marvel: Symbols and avatars, not images and people

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A comment on the wave of superhero graphic novels that has recently hit the market.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A German-born bounty hunter teams up with an ex-slave in the antebellum South in Quentin Tarantino’s newest film.

Best films of 2012

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The general state of the film world presents a sharper contradiction than ever, as underlined by a number of recently released films and the critics’ reactions to them.

Favorite music of 2012

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

World Socialist Web Site music writers pick their favorite pop and jazz releases of 2012.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Growing up in the early 1990s

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

In Stephen Chbosky’s film, based on his 1999 novel, the central character, Charlie, a 15-year-old high school student, narrates the story in the form of letters to an anonymous “friend.”

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—not so unexpected as all that

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Filmed as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings series, this first part of The Hobbit covers approximately half the book as written by J.R.R. Tolkien (published in 1937).

A new film version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (and Sean Baker’s Starlet )

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

British filmmaker Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard have collaborated on a new film adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel. Starlet tells the story of a relationship between two women in California’s San Fernando Valley.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood embraces the “dark side”

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty brings to film-making what “embedded” reporting did for journalism—an uncritical embrace of and identification with the military-intelligence complex and its crimes.

Andrew Marr’s History of the World: A slur against revolution

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Media slurs against socialism are commonplace, but rarely are they as pointed and mired in historical distortions as those advanced in the recent BBC series.

The Life of Pi: In a lifeboat alone with a tiger

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The new film directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee is based on a 2001 novel—winner of the Booker Prize—by Canadian author Yann Martel.

Death Grips’ No Love Deep Web: A terminally destructive message

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Death Grips are a trio from Sacramento, California, composed of vocalist MC Ride (Stefan Burnett), percussionist Zach Hill and producer Andy “Flatlander” Morin.

The Central Park Five: A story of injustice

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Directed and produced by renowned documentarian Ken Burns, daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon, The Central Park Five chronicles an infamous case in 1989.

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck dies at 91

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A significant figure in postwar American culture, Brubeck’s classic 1959 album Time Out sold a million copies, the first jazz album to hold that distinction.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) and the crisis of contemporary music

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

American composer Elliott Carter reflected the trajectory of Western classical music in the past century.

Assessing an American pop icon

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

In late 2011, a re-mastered edition of the seminal album Nevermind by pop-punk band Nirvana was released, marking the work’s 20th anniversary.

Dangerous Remedy: Bertram Wainer and the struggle for abortion rights

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

New Australian telemovie falsely marketed as crime drama.

Silver Linings Playbook: It’s the little things in life …

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

In this comedy-drama, former substitute history teacher Pat has just been released from a psychiatric facility when he meets Tiffany, the widow of a policeman. Together they struggle to overcome their difficulties.

The Man with the Iron Fists: Reactionary Kung-Fu

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The film, directed by rapper-music producer RZA, follows a collection of warriors in mythical 19th century China who band together to defeat a common enemy.

An exercise in myth-making

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Whitlam’s demise is presented as the downfall of a social reformer, almost totally ignoring the global context in which the 1975 Canberra Coup took place.

Sorry at New York’s Public Theater: American liberals on Election Day

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The third in a series of plays set in Rhinebeck, New York, Sorry reflects a certain retreat from critical issues.

The Law in These Parts: Israeli military justice in the Occupied Territories

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary is a penetrating look at the Israeli military legal system in the Occupied Territories on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip over the last 45 years.

Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Artifact details the legal battle between Jared Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, and EMI, the recording industry giant.

Free Land: American dreams and realities

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Minda Martin’s 2010 film Free Land, at the same time a documentary-essay and personal memoir, poetically and evocatively connects a variety of social and personal events.

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and the historical drama of the Civil War

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a powerful cinematic treatment of the Lincoln administration’s struggle to pass a Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery in 1865, the final year of the American Civil War.

Flight: A pilot saves the day, but not himself

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

In Flight Denzel Washington plays Whip Whitaker, a highly skilled pilot with a serious drinking and drug problem, who becomes a hero when he averts a plane crash. However …