Fifty years ago, Flint, Michigan was a thriving manufacturing hub of 200,000 people. Then known as “Vehicle City”, there were 80,000 auto industry jobs. In 1978, General Motors began downsizing Flint. Eventually, the number of living-wage jobs declined by 90 percent. Things were so bad by the 1980s that filmmaker Michael Moore released a documentary, […]
2020 was a strange year for the film industry. Covid-19 closed the theatres; a number of movies appeared first on streaming services like Amazon and Netflix. We’ve selected a dozen of the year’s releases for our readers. Not all of them are Oscar material, but they all combine artistry, engagement and reasonably humane values which […]