It’s an appalling irony that among the myriad travesties committed against First Nations people, some of the most egregious and systematic were enacted against children by state child welfare agencies. Across the U.S. — including here in Maine — standardized government policy removed Native …

Though many of us sell the pleasant fiction that we spend our autumn moments outside, embarking on foliage hikes, spooky road trips and bonfire adventures, let’s confront a more likely reality. We’re going to spend a great deal of time in front of a screen.

The Revival: Women & the Word follows the progression of a poetry tour of the same name, as we travel through seven cities with the poets, artists, and volunteers of The Revival. The film lays out in an intricately nuanced way that yes, the world unfolds to women of color when we spread …

Celluloid nitrate, the medium of the first motion pictures, is a direct descendent of a military explosive. Stored improperly, it spontaneously bursts into flame. Most of it has burned or been lost. But some reels in the Yukon have survived an improbable life, death and rebirth. Filmmaker Bi…

A Disney mermaid movie “The Lure” is not. “Help us come to shore,” sing its two young mermaid sisters, Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszanska), in dulcet duet to three drunk revelers on the shore, and then: “We won’t eat you yet.” We shift to a techno beat and a sparkly, booz…

Some of the most acute and devastating insights on race in America came from African-American writer James Baldwin. He grew up in Harlem, moved to Paris to flee racism, and returned for a time during the American Civil Rights Movement; his analysis of the nation has the depth of a thinker wh…