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by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | May 18th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comWriter-director Mariama Diallo’s satirical short “Hair Wolf” attracted attention at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, earning a jury award for its funny/scary social commentary. Diallo returned to the festival in 2022 with debut feature “Master,” a promising extension of her interests in the contemporary politics and historical hegemony…
by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | May 18th, 2022
…By Charlie BarberCMCBARB@msn.com“Let’s you and him fight!” - The Coward’s Credo“Liberty resides in no particular form of government, but in a free man’s own heart. He carries it with him wherever he goes…I laugh at those degraded people who, letting conspirators incite them to rise in arms, dare to speak…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | May 18th, 2022
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comArtwork: Woodcut by Danielle Gravon titled “Allegory of Fargo Winter I"On June 18, the Rourke will be holding their 62nd annual Midwestern Preview, the date celebrating the opening anniversary of the Rourke Gallery in 1960. The invitational exhibition is one of the longest-running invitationals in the Midwest, celebrating…
by Sabrina Hornung | News | May 18th, 2022
…By Olivia Slyteroslyter.g@cord.eduPhotos by Sabrina HornungFor months, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has been asking the heavy question “Should the 1973 ruling of Roe v. Wade be overturned?” On May 2nd, Politico leaked a February 2022 draft of the Supreme Court ruling, revealing that they could vote…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | May 18th, 2022
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comOur opinion: It’s not a matter of pro-life or pro-choice, it’s anti-womanI hate to admit it, but aside from the Women’s March in 2017, I hadn’t attended a rally or a march since the Bush administration. Last Saturday I showed up at the “Bans off our bodies” rally…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | May 8th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comPhoto credit: Amazon StudiosAmy Poehler’s nonfiction feature debut as director is a solid and informative account of the inextricably linked personal and professional lives of two visionary entertainers and broadcasting pioneers. The title “Lucy and Desi” doesn’t require the last names Ball and Arnaz for viewers to instantly…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 8th, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com How Can We Know Democracy When We Have Never Experienced It?Some Americans have said we had democracy when one rich man wrote that all men were “created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Evidently he didn’t mean women at all—or slaves who were…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | May 1st, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmial.comSpeaking Truth to Power and ProfitFilmmaker Rory Kennedy lays out damning evidence in “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is now available to stream on Netflix. Kennedy’s sobering, infuriating film is peak advocacy storytelling, a focused takedown equally interested in…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 30th, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Man Was Made by Shock and AgonyThe printing presses and all those tiny chips fill our eyes and ears every second with words and images of war, destruction, and the slaughter of human beings in Ukraine and other spots on the planet. Vladimir Putin is just one…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | April 25th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comFinnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm’s feature debut “Hatching” is a satisfying creature-feature delight. A coming-of-age, body horror nightmare with a sharp sense of social critique and a nose for the adolescent challenges of complicated mother-daughter relationships, Bergholm’s film critiques the contemporary obsession with self-centered personal branding and the pursuit…