Performance art strikes at the heart of the human experience, or at least tries to. What impact have performance artists had on our world and what makes for powerful performance art?
Radical Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña provides his unique perspective on borders, Trump, hope, and the role of the artist.
It would be much simpler and things would line up far neater if everyone publicly accused of sexual harassment or misconduct was someone we hated or distrusted in the first place. This is the argument Bill Maher seems to be taking with his friend, Al Franken...and it's wrong.
Let's examine the Jussie Smollett situation and place the bulk of the blame where it properly belongs...
On February 28, 2016, three years ago now, HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver aired a segment that was especially prescient about the Trump era, and the many ways how mainstream comedy would try, and fail, to react to it.
When the ban on Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' was ended in 1964 it was hailed as a victory against censorship. How would progressives view his "obscene" work today?
Hundreds of UK artists, companies, and associations unite to use the power of music to make a positive change.
It's not exactly a golden time for political satire, especially at the movies, but this month marks the 20th anniversary of 'Dick', a beautifully sharp satire of the Watergate scandal.
One major difference between 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and its progeny involves the nature of the plot and tone. If 'The Handmaid’s Tale' was a warning, 'The Testaments' is a call to revolution.
With Rage Against the Machine finally reuniting in 2020, now is a good time to look at a few of their influences as well as the impact their politically charged music has had.
Members of the United States Congress making reference to famous hip-hop lyrics is a relatively new phenomenon in American politics. Also new? Reporters not knowing that they're hip-hop lyrics.
The six-part series, which wrapped up last month, is one of the works of fiction that has best grappled with the Trump era. Its modern-day echoes really hit home.
This year’s usual Oscars reaction followed another, more old-school right-wing freakout over entertainment. When the Parkland high school massacre led to more of an anti-gun cultural groundswell than such tragedies typically have, those on the other side of the issue turned to a typical alternate scapegoat: Hollywood, and video games.
In 1972, journalist Hunter S. Thompson provided characteristically unique insight into why the Democrats lost the election against Nixon. In 2016, we learned that the DNC didn't learn from their past mistakes.
This 2005 documentary about presidential hopeful, Cory Booker, is a fascinating portrait of bare-knuckle, East Coast urban politics. But the 80-minute film also deals with a lot of issues that are still resonant in politics, and are likely to remain so in the 2020 election.
Like most things in American life, this has become a media story. And a narrative has been pushed, but it's a narrative full of myths and misunderstandings.
The standout crooner of the 1970s has provided us with—from the grave—an album that is more than great: it’s the perfect album for the times in which we live.
Have we become too complacent to investigate the repercussions that our indifference (or willful ignorance) has on our modern liberties?
Politics crossed paths with 'The Godfather' films again this week, not for the first time in the Trump era, and probably not the last either.
Described as a classic dystopian faith-based YA gun rights movie. 'The Reliant' will have a one-night-only Fathom Events release, on October 24.
A limited series is in development based on 'A Higher Loyalty', the memoir by former FBI Director James Comey, and will feature Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson as the leads.
There have been quite a few social-media freakouts in the last couple of years and this Vaughn/Trump one is yet another backlash to the backlash, in search of an original backlash.
While the film would appear to fit in with Sanders' beliefs about the greedy financial industry, its depiction of debauchery and drug usage is quite at odds with his personal aesthetic.
The study of film and its effect on human development has been a hotly debated and ever-growing field over the years, but it was Arthur P. Shimamra who coined the term "psychocinematics" to examine the way films affect our mental processes.