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By Gregory Crofton SundanceNow Doc Club, the high bar for streaming critically acclaimed and festival-winning documentaries online, recently opened its gate to fiction films. What does this mean for the genre? Is it a slight tip of the scale that…
Robert Beck, also known as Iceberg Slim, is the man who started it all. He took black culture, wrote it down, with the help of his wife, and turned it into commercial success. Like many black artists, Slim didn’t receive…
By Gregory Crofton Gore Vidal, a well-known, openly gay, historical writer and political commentator, decided to run for the United States Senate to represent California in 1982. (His great-grandfather served as a U.S. senator from Oklahoma in the 1920s and…
By Gregory Crofton My sister recommended JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI. I started it, got through about 20 minutes, but I was too tired to watch a movie and shut it off. I revisited it last night and couldn’t get enough.…
