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The feminist punk movement in the Pacific Northwest was catalyzed by a Latina. Mia Zapata, a Mexican-American punk rocker living in Seattle in the early 1990s, played a key role in shaping the nascent grunge movement with her band, The Gits. Known for their aggressive live performances and their straightforward, melodic punk music, the band, fronted by Zapata, quickly became popular among the feminist echelons of the Seattle punk movement. Their debut studio album, “Frenching the Bully,” was met with widespread support from the music community, and for the rest of their short-lived ...

From Sundance: The Radical Humanity of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ | Arts | The Harvard Crimson

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Sion Sono, often regarded as Japanese cinema’s most subversive filmmaker, has made 57 films in a colorful, three decades-long career. On Jan. 31, he premiered his first and only English language feature at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — the very festival he always dreamed of premiering his first English film in. In “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” the prolific director joined one of the U.S.’s most prolific actors, Nicolas Cage, to create a wild but compelling mash-up of Eastern and Western cinematic influences, with cinematography so beautiful it could justify the fi...

Dir. Maisie Crow — 4 Stars A still from "At The Ready" (2021), directed by Maisie Crow. In Texas, there are over 900 high schools with law enforcement education and recruitment programs. One of those schools, Horizon High School, is 10 miles from the Mexico-United States border border in El Paso, Texas — the largest city on the border and the city with the highest immigration rates in the country. At the school, which is the setting of Maisie Crow’s latest documentary, students have the ability to pursue law enforcement in both a class and a school-sanctioned club. The class fo...