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A captivating adventure into the world of our consciousness, a community’s struggle in the face of social inequality, an artistic exploration of indigenous perspectives, a depiction of an abusive relationship through the eyes of a child and an isolated man looking for connection: These are just a few of the stories highlighted at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival which showcased international perspectives celebrating diversity, individuality and cultural identity through the eyes of emerging filmmakers.  The festival began with the screening of Playland USA, a captivati...

The End of the World as We Know It , by Elisa Gabbert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 272 pages. Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time , by Ben Ehrenreich. Counterpoint, 2020. 336 pages. Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex , by Jessica Hurley. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 301 pages. IT’S HARD to escape the apocalypse these days. Temperatures are rising. The far right is resurgent around the world. A pandemic has killed millions and intensified local and global divisions between rich and poor. The feelings attending such events—un...

Both Eddie S. Glaude's Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own and Bill V. Mullen's James Baldwin: Living in Fire are organized around what Mullen calls the “arc of change, reflection, and evolution” in Baldwin's life story.

COMMENT | What is Bangsa Malaysia? Modified11:22 pm - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. COMMENT | Lim Kit Siang recently asked Malaysians to ask themselves one question – “who is the 'Other' in the Malaysian context?” His answer to this question, his point of self-reflection if you will, was this: "Is the 'Other' the Chinese and Indians to a Malay Malaysian, the Malays and Indians to a Chinese Malaysian, and the Malays and Chinese to an Indian Malaysian?" As someone who has spent a decade attempting to figure out what it means to be “Malaysian”, I have to say this is the kind of p...

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Mank’ Win Awards in BAFTA’s Below-the-Line Ceremony “Ma Rainey” is the only two-time winner in a show that presented awards in six below-the-line categories and two short-film categoriesSteve Pond | April 10, 2021 @ 1:55 PM Last Updated: April 10, 2021 @ 1:57 PM AWARDS BEAT David Lee/Netflix “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,”  “Mank,” “Rocks,” “Tenet” and  “Sound of Metal” were among the winners at Saturday’s BAFTA Opening Night 2021 ceremony, the first of two ceremonies at which the EE British Academy Film Awards w...