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Review: David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)

American Utopia has been billed a successor to the Talking Heads’ masterful Stop Making Sense, but while the music is good as always, this show doesn’t quite live up to its promise.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromNovember 30, 2020concert film, American Utopia, Spike Lee, David Byrne, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, musicComment

Table Talk: Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Anders and Anton discuss the new Spike Lee Vietnam War film, Da 5 Bloods, and how it fits into Lee’s on filmography, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the legacy of American imperialism in Southeast Asia.

RoundtablesAnders BergstromJune 26, 2020Table Talk, Spike Lee, war movie, drama, race, Vietnam, Delroy LIndo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Jonathan Majors, Norm Lewis, Paul Walter Hauser, Melanie Thierry, Jaspar Paakonen, Jean RenoComment

Predicting the 2019 Oscars

Need help with your Oscar pool? Look no further.

FeaturesAren BergstromFebruary 22, 2019Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born, Vice, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Rami Malek, Viggo Mortensen, At Eternity's Gate, Yalitizia Aparicio, Glenn Close, The Wife, Olivia Colman, Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mahershala Ali, Adam Driver, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, Sam Rockwell, Amy Adams, Marina de Tavira, Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Lee, Yorgos Lanthimos, Adam McKay, Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War, First Reformed, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Never Look Away, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots, First Man, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Robin, Ready Player One, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Border, RBG, Isle of Dogs, Hale County, Hale County This Morning This Evening, Free Solo, Minding the Gap, Of Fathers and Sons, Capernaum, Shoplifters, Incredibles 2, Mirai, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseComment

Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Spike Lee’s newest joint isn’t just a great entertainment, but a self-aware exploration of double consciousness and white supremacy in America. One of the year’s best films

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAnders BergstromOctober 4, 2018BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, Adam Driver, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, African American cinema, Birth of a Nation, white supremacy, Harry Belafonte, police procedural, crime drama, AmericaComment