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Sinners - DMovies 16 OSCAR MOMINATIONS: Ryan Coogler uses vampires are a metaphor for racial battles, in a superbly cast "musical" where no character breaks into song without rhyme and reason - now on VoD

Ryan Coogler uses vampires are a metaphor for racial battles, in a superbly cast "musical" where no character breaks into song without rhyme and reason

Read our verdict of the film with most Oscar nominations in history:

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Latin American and Latinx Titles at SXSW 2026 — Cinema Tropical The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival announced part of its lineup last week for its 40th edition, taking place March

The SXSW Film Festival has announced part of the lineup for its 40th edition. Take a look at this year’s Latin American and U.S. Latinx selections

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

How Los Angeles and Chicago Came to Appreciate Their Coyote Neighbors What urban coyotes eat depends a good deal on the city where they live. In Chicago, the large lakeshore population of Canadian geese has become a major food source for Cook County coyotes, not so m…

“We’ve thought of cities for 5,500 years of recorded history as the one spot where, at long last, humans could escape predators.” What the coyotes of Los Angeles and Chicago reveal about our changing attitudes towards urban wildlife.

What is better than Amazon for Christmas?
#buylocal 🎄

Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision Join us for the short film exhibition and book launch 'Pluriversal Politics: Otomí History, Language, Culture, and Cosmovision' by Dr. Ewald Hekking, a Dutch scholar who has spent 40 years working to ...

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Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth

This urban planner is leading tours behind Chicano-shaped spaces in East LA James Rojas’s walking tours of L.A.’s Eastside feature the landmarks of Chicano and Latino culture.

This urban planner is leading tours behind Chicano-shaped spaces in East LA.

For years now, urban planner James Rojas has led tours of L.A.’s Eastside, pointing out the murals, landmarks and architecture formed by Chicano and Latino culture.
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Spike Lee at the 1998 Spirit Awards.

In honor of Spike Lee’s latest film ‘Highest 2 Lowest’, #ontheblog we have a loose retrospective on some of his most acclaimed and underrated titles in regards to storytelling and the human experience.

🎞️ Read here: bit.ly/48SwMNB

✍️: Adam Vargas

CIA monitored UA students in the '60s, newly declassified files show - AZ Luminaria A recently declassified document shows that in 1969 a CIA operative visited the University of Arizona campus to conduct a “careful review” of a contract between the university and the federal spy agen...

The U of A collaborated with the CIA in the 1960s to spy on chicano students and infiltrate and sabotage chicano groups. Something to add to the U of A Chicano Studies curriculum. Beyond shameful but not surprising.
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Episodic Directing Intensive - Film Independent The Episodic Directing Intensive is a three-day program that prepares its participants for a career in episodic directing through conversations with

Quick! 🚨 Submit to the 2026 Episodic Directing Intensive by Mon, Sep 22~
This three-day program prepares its directors for a career in episodic directing through convos with veteran directors, showrunners and executives.

📺 Apply now or join as a #FiMember for more time.
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My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

Noem’s cruelty is possible because it draws from racism long embedded in US history. Structural racism—framed as “patriotism” and “order”—makes such policies acceptable and normalized. She isn’t the originator but part of a long legacy of racial state violence in America.

100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born.

Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist.

"What matters is not to know the world but to change it"

Ryan Coogler’s #Sinners is a thrilling ride—a blood-soaked, blues-inflected fever dream. Equal parts Mississippi Gothic, coming-of-age parable, musical and vampire #horror. Although the script is unbalanced it's electrifying watching a genius filmmaker create a new genre--the vampire blues.

One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.

Thank you to @sensesofcinema.bsky.social for the wonderful opportunity to share my work!

Chicanos in the 1940s

During WWII, Mexican American youth especially those wearing zoot suits—were framed as internal threats to public order. Military personnel, police, and media collaborated to portray Chicano youth as criminals. Operation Wetback (1954) were framed as national security responses. Sound familiar?

Lupe is on an adult-size tricycle and the dogs are in a basket attached to the back wheels. She's wearing a print dress with puff sleeves, a necklace, and slides, and she is shielding her eyes with one hand.

Lupe Velez takes her Chihuahuas for a spin around the RKO backlot, 1941.

YouTube video by CBC Arts Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) | Full Film

Biidaaban is an absolutley stunning short film by Amanda Strong. A must watch for anyone that loves stop motion and #cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjn...

I normally post about films and filmmaking yet if you are in CA please urge @gavinnewsom to suppport millions of California families who rely on Medi-Cal for essential care! Protect our most vulnerable communities! #Health4All #ValueCHCs

Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison (both of 1994’s ONCE WERE WARRIORS) star in this sweeping Māori-language epic about the 1864 Battle of Ōrākau, as an Indigenous tribe defends their land from invading British forces.

🎦 Fri 5/16 at DT
🎦 Sun 5/18 at Shoreline CC

Showtimes: siff.info/kawhawhaitonu-bs

Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

YouTube video by Dogwoof No Other Land - Alt Trailer

#NoOtherLand is not just a film it’s a reckoning. It tears away the filters, the silence, the normalization of ethnic cleansing. Going forward it’s hard to imagine how #film can truly even matter—unless it stands in protest to genocide.
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Incredibly excited to see this film! Art can be revolutionary and move our spirit in times of chaos and when the world is in need of inspiration. #thefishbowl #cinema

The Fluidity of Muxe Identity in El secreto del río – Senses of Cinema

In the face of a world heavy with grief, and injustice, we still deserve space to breathe, and to witness beauty—especially the kind rooted in resilience. I'm honored to share my latest article, “The Fluidity of Muxe Identity in El secreto del rio”
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¡Dímelo, Connecticut! On May 7th, @santiaaurora.bsky.social and I will be at Central Connecticut State University talking about nostalgia and historical memory in the discography of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, "directamente desde el espacio".

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Drive My Car (number 9) - DMovies DMovies This is the fourth entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired movies: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's ode to listening, a Hiroshima-set drama featuring post-atomic bodies and silence as a resistance weapon

A brilliant film deserves a brilliant analysis "Here lies the film’s first biopolitical layer: listening as self-governance, as a method of emotional regulation. Grief, which ought to disorganise, is carefully choreographed by Yûsuke"
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#cinema #drivemycar

Spike Lee On Reuniting With Denzel Washington For ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ With A$AP Rocky & Ice Spice — Red Sea Studio The 'He Got Game' director said the film, which also stars A$AP Rocky and Ice Spice, is a "reinterpretation" of Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low'.

The legendary Spike Lee will be releasing a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s film, High and Low. The film by Spike Lee is titled Highest 2 Lowest, inspired by the Japanese director’s 1963 crime thriller. deadline.com/video/spike-...
#spikelee #a$aprocky #icespice #cinema

No Other Land - DMovies The latest Best Documentary Academy Award winner is a painfully real and objective register of the horrors Palestinians have to endure, and of the unhinged depravity of their oppressors - stream it no...

"No recent Palestinian film has achieved the same heights as this Berlinale- and Oscar-winning documentary"

Stream it now, for free:

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