"Trumbo": We're still persecuting the innocent
Director Jay Roach, known for lighter fare, has taken on a heady subject, no less than the most famous communist in Hollywood history -- Dalton Trumbo.
Today in history: Musician/activist Leonard Bernstein is born
Bernstein became the most prominent American-born conductor and a supremely talented musician, educator and composer.
Eye in the Sky: Surveillance and the art of Arnold Mesches
The manuscripts in question: Mesches' FBI file, 1945 to 1972; Arny, as he calls himself, is 91.
Ayn Rand, U.S. government, and censoring of Hollywood dissent
In Dennis Broe's "Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood," there is an attempt to categorize the film noir movies of different time periods.
"Free Angela" - what you do when wolves come after you
"Free Angela and all Political Prisoners," written and directed by Shola Lynch, brilliantly tells the story about the history-making struggle, to win Davis' freedom.
