
Families react to tragedy in "August: Osage County" and "Nebraska"
By now, we should be convinced that Meryl Streep can do anything, but we've never seen her do ugly like this!

“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”: propaganda dressed as entertainment
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Ruskies? The Shadow Recruit knows!

“Club Red”: Vacation, Soviet-style
Koenker also paints a vivid, detailed picture of a government sincerely attempting to live up to its promise of "the good life" for its citizens.

Top 10 worst sequels and remakes of 2013
Here are ten films that make a compelling case for why Hollywood has come down not only with severe sequelitis, but remake-itis as well.

Black superheroes forever changed comic books
Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes does a great job of introducing many of today's comic book fans with the history of African Americans in comic books and pop culture generally.

American Latino Museum could be “beacon for the planet”
The Smithsonian National American Latino Museum, already 20 years in the planning, will be a reality some day, but no one can say when.

Six shows with substance coming to television
The recent qualitative drop in Hollywood films has left a "creativity vaccuum," which is now being filled on the small screen.

What does Wonder Woman mean for 2015?
Gal Gadot, a relatively unknown Jewish Israeli actress, has been cast in the role of Wonder Woman. Some are pondering what a female superhero means in modern times.



