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The debates over on-screen representation and filmmaking's blind spots predate digital outrage. The new podcast Screening Ourselves digs into three Hollywood classics, The Godfather, The Color Purple and Basic Instinct, and how they each portrayed, and ignited, historically misrepresented groups.

The debates over on-screen representation and filmmakings blind spots predate digital outrage. The new podcast Screening Ourselves digs into three Hollywood classics, The Godfather, The Color Purple and Basic Instinct, and how they each portrayed, and ignited, historically misrepresented groups.

Commentary When you think of “Frankenstein,” does opera come to mind? Mary Shelley’s classic novel about a scientist ...

Actor Kit Connor tweeted: “I’m bi. congrats for forcing an 18 year old to out himself. i think some of you missed the point of the show.” Caitlin Kelly examines what happened, and what could bring someone to release a statement like this.

On Saturday his wife of four years Olivia Hamilton showed off her baby bump when at the 11th Annual LACMA Art + Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They already share a son.

Celebrating 100 years of advocacy on free expression, free speech, and literary culture, PEN America will present a discussion “Censored: Free Speech and Hollywood” on Wed., Nov. 16 at the Central Los Angeles Public Library (630 W. 5th St.) in its ongoing nationwide Flashpoints series examining the intersection of free speech and civil liberties.

Politicians warn that we’re headed back to the 1970s. Is the fear-mongering just an excuse for punishing interest-rate hikes and a revival of the same pro-business, anti-worker policies that failed us before?

These rare big-screen presentations begin Sunday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. with “Hot Saturday,” made in 1932 before the “Hays Code” imposed film censorship guidelines.

ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre presents a “pre-Code Hollywood Film Fest,” a series of films produced in the 1930’s before the “Hay’s Code” imposed film censorship guidelines. During the early 1930s, desperately trying to lure broke depression-era...

From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long detected a queer undertone in many horror films. Now the genre is bringing its gay subtext to the surface