Movies you might have missed: "Thieves' Highway"
One noir film that dealt with explicitly working-class issues was Thieves' Highway (1949) starring Richard Conte in perhaps his finest role.
Movies you might have missed: "Mondays in the Sun"
Despite the often-depressing vignettes of the characters' plight, the story is ultimately one of the pride and dignity of the working class.
Movies you might have missed: "I Am Twenty"
Soviet filmmakers were often criticized in the West for producing stories sneeringly termed "boy gets tractor, meets girl."
New film from China on the horrors of the "Rape of Nanking"
What the Japanese militarists did to China is a story that every Chinese person knows well, but, I think, not so much in the West.
Spielberg's "War Horse" is terrific, moving epic
"War Horse" is simply a terrific war movie that makes its statements graphically and through sensitive portrayals, whether in actual battle scenes or not.
"Young Adult": You can't go home again to Kilimanjaro
The only uplifting thing in the movie was the IATSE union bug in the last frame.
London calling: a review of "London River"
Co-writer/director Bouchareb explores the unlikely cross-cultural friendship that evolves between the Christian woman and Muslim man.
African American history through music
The film is a look back at the "Black Power" movement in the years referenced in the title.
The Muppets occupy Hollywood
A Muppets encounter with the Occupy movement might have made for a more interesting reboot of the franchise.
Was the Nazi lesson learned?
The prosecutors and judges as well, intended to make sure that Hitler's war and attendant atrocities would never happen again.
