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Female film directors more motivated by artistic control than profit

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“We want to make sure that when we bring a female director in to do ‘Star Wars,’ they’re set up for success. They’re gigantic films, and you can’t come into them with essentially no experience.” Mu...

Apathy toward safety of minorities central to Trump win

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If there is something that has struck me most since Donald Trump was elected, it’s the sheer amount of people who I have seen claim that racism was not the reason he won. That’s an overly simplistic d...

Not smitten with your candidate? Vote anyway

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To my fellow liberals: This election season has been shocking and disheartening. It’s hard to recall an election when the American public was so dissatisfied and disillusioned with its choices for ...

Americans have not had their day of reckoning with race

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In my last column, I wrote at length on pundits’ appropriation of Martin Luther King Jr. as a way to decry today’s movements against racial injustice. What I think this all points to is a surprisingly...

Pundits misappropriate Martin Luther King Jr.’s racial activism

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Racial tensions are at the forefront of this year’s presidential debate. There's no way around it. Over the past few years, there has been a resurgence in open racial strife in the United States, a...

Trump is not divergence from, but conclusion to American conservatism

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Donald Trump created a fissure in the Republican Party. His campaign was originally greeted with dismissal, but as the seriousness of his candidacy became apparent, many conservatives took staunch sta...

Democratic platform not facing due scrutiny in chaos of Trump

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Donald Trump is a disaster. Let me be abundantly clear about that. He represents a decaying breed of anti-intellectual American exceptionalism lashing out as it comes to realize that it is fundament...

Voters must demand more from candidates

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Earlier this week, I shared an article on Facebook. The subject of this article was Bernie Sanders, specifically his awkward, fumbling interview with New York Daily News from last week. The article ...

Cinemas need to exploit their unique advantages

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 Among digital filmmaking technology, online movie distribution and rapidly evolving home media, the world of moviemaking has had a trying decade and it doesn’t look like things will cool down anytime...

Hollywood must revive cinematic experience to completely capture audiences

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In December 2015, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino rolled out a unique cinematic experience around his new film, “The Hateful Eight.” Prior to its wide release in theaters across the country, “The Hate...
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