The Rock and the gang show pleasure in polymorphism.
Tag: Danny Glover
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At 25 years old, the Black Harvest Film Festival still schwings
This year’s selections look back at history and ahead to the future through the eyes of ambitious young people.
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Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You expose the class tensions often obscured by race
Two of the year’s best movies come rocketing out of Oakland, California.
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Beyond the ‘Bernie bro’: Socialism’s diverse new youth brigade
Inspired by Sanders, outraged by Trump, and betrayed by the neoliberal establishment, the reinvigorated Democratic Socialists of America set out to paint the town red.
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Lupe, Ealy, and The People Speak
Lupe Fiasco and Michael Ealy perform at a screening of excerpts from the alternative history documentary “The People Speak,” Wednesday 11/11 at Northwestern.
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Final Bow
Director John Berry got his big start as an actor in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre in 1937. Welles then introduced him to film in 1938 when he hired him as assistant director on a silent slapstick short made to accompany and introduce portions of the stage farce Too Much Johnson. (The farce never made it […]