• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

I won’t be the first to tell you that director Kathryn Bigelow knows her way around filming extremely intense sequences. From her praised war films The Hurt Locker and...

• November 17, 2017
• At Home, Documentary

There’s something so unreal and ephemeral about carnivals that it’s almost strange to think about them in practical terms. They appear every year with their dependable variations on rides,...

• July 5, 2017
• At Home, Drama

In a performance that will inevitably draw comparisons to his role as Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, David Oyelowo stars as Khama, the heir to the throne of...

• January 19, 2017
• At Home, Documentary

“My grandparents were colored. My parents were Negroes. And me, I’m black.” So says the amiable host and creator of Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Henry...

• October 29, 2016
• At Home, Drama, War

Bloody Sunday is one of those films that you know immediately has only the best intentions. Focusing on the massacre of peace-marching civilians by British troops on one bloody...

• September 21, 2016
• At Home, Drama

History is remembered by the biggest headlines. For those folks that grew up after the 1960s, that era, where America lost its innocence, tends to be bookended with JFK’s...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Drama

Dear Ellen Page, I think you are super-cute, a fine actress, and a refreshing gay-rights advocate. I commend you for grabbing this story to produce, as it is fascinating,...

• March 1, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Carlos (Demián Bichir) has been in the United States illegally for many, many years, making a living as a landscaper at rich homes in the Los Angeles area. His...

• January 9, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Director Ava DuVernay throws her hat into the ring with the latest civil rights drama, and comes out ahead of the pack with her stirring MLK drama. Avoiding the...

• December 23, 2014
• At Home, Drama

I have to say that if someone had just told me the idea of the story of Pride without any historical context, I would have thought it was incredible...

• July 22, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Though it is somewhat of a workhorse earnest film, Cesar Chavez gives a good sense of the impact that the activist had on the rights of modern farm workers....

• January 23, 2014
• At Home, Drama

What happened on New Year’s Eve 2009 is a great example of a perfect storm of events that steamrolled into tragedy. Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old African-American kid in...