Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He appears here on The Joe Rogan…
Luther Vandross Worked His Way to the Top of R&B, Taking it Mainstream
By Gregory Crofton A packed house at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville lit up “Luther: Never Too Much” bringing emotion and joy to a screening on a recent Sunday evening of the new documentary directed by Dawn Porter. Audience members…
Attorney Fights Nursing Homes that Put Profit Over Care
By Gregory Crofton Profit shouldn’t be priority when caring for older people, but that’s a reality and it’s producing “systemic negligence” throughout the nursing home industry. Running a long-term care facility, or nursing home, as a for-profit corporate-owned business can…
‘ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord’ is DEF
By Gregory Crofton Jon Day, best known for his music video work, spent five years making a documentary on Die Antwoord, the viciously good South African cheetahs of art rap. Roger Ballen, a photographer whose had a massive influence rap…
Murder Remembered
This feature-length docudrama brings us back to 1950 in a smalltown Ontario bank, the scene of an armed hold-up by Herbert McAuliffe. By nightfall, two men are dead. The robber flees, and for three days the community of Norfolk County…
Still Photos Examine Breakdown of Ukrainian Life in ‘SIGNS OF WAR’
By Gregory Crofton Pierre Crom is a French photographer who seems to like being in control of things. He sips his coffee carefully and speaks deliberately when interviewed about his work. But war photography, a field he chose once he…