Lucha Familiar
Mounting a production of a little-known play in these pandemic and inflationary-influenced times is something of a risk for most theater companies. Audiences have yet to return in full-force to live theater, so a significant leap of faith is required to produce material that...
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
Aimed squarely at multiplex audiences (yet still winning the Grand Prix at Cannes), Spike Lee’s powerful and entertaining BlacKkKlansman is quilted together from many pieces. The first piece involves the famous camera-crane, dolly-shot from Gone With the Wind where the screen ends up being filled with thousands of dead and dying Confederate soldiers. Then the clip stops, and the next piece features a white supremacist named Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard (Alec Baldwin) delivering an out-takes diatribe about miscegenation and mongrelization.
