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To many a fan of a certain age, Brock Peters was Joseph Sisko. The culinary aficionado who made some of the best food out of his restaurant in New Orleans. The father of Deep Space Nine captain Benjamin Sisko and the man who helped instill the same moral integrity into his son that fans truly enjoyed. He had a brief role on the show, but his turn as Joseph Sisko had many fans calling him one of the best side characters in Star Trek history.

For Peters, who famously played Tom Robinson in the live-action version of To Kill a Mockingbird, his turn on Star Trek didn't start with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Like many other actors out in the world of Star Trek, Robinson joined the franchise long before Deep Space Nine. In fact, he's one of the few people in the world of Star Trek to play...

Looking to celebrate Father’s Day with a classic movie? Nearly every streaming service offers something to celebrate dads, but we’ve pulled together some of the best movies we’ve seen to mark the holiday. Whether you’ve got an action hero dad, a tender-hearted dad, an estranged dad, or a dad shepherding you through a cinematic hellscape, there’s a movie to fit your mood.

Best Movies About Dads Field of Dreams April 21, 1989

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s directions don’t stop — even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

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Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son,...

The black and white images of "To Kill a Mockingbird" are seared onto my brain. Just the film's monochrome snapshots of young, rambunctious Scout with her friends in the sweltering days of summer -- or being scolded for her unkindly manner -- are enough to conjure memories of childhood without tipping over into nostalgia. 

Compare that to the scenes set at nighttime where Scout and her companions investigate their elusive, reclusive neighbor, Arthur "Boo" Radley (Robert Duvall). These sequences evoke the terror of being a helpless child with their long shadows and sinister ambience, culminating with the film's intense climax (and its profoundly touching aftermath). Even in the movie's agitated courtroom scenes, the black and white visuals serve to augment the fiery emotions on display rather than distract from them.

Director Robert Mulligan's classic 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winner, itself a bildungsroman loosely inspired by Lee's own upbringing,...

This week, two attorneys will stand and make their cases to the jury. Yes, that jury and that trial, which may put a former—and future?—president behind bars. This is when the pressure falls on the prosecution and defense to make their final claims of guilt or innocence.

“At this point, parties are free to use hypothetical analogies to make their points; to comment on the credibility of the witnesses, to discuss how they believe the various pieces of the puzzle fit into a compelling whole, and to advocate why jurors should decide the case in their favor,” explains the official site of the Federal Court System.

Or, we can just recall the most memorable, decisive arguments made on screen. Hey, we can handle the truth! Here is my list of 10 to remember.

“To Kill A Mockingbird”

Gregory Peck won the Oscar — even though he didn’t win the case — as Atticus Finch,...

The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockers

There’s no better time than now for a documentary on popular music’s role in the fight against racism and fascism. And in true punk spirit, this lo-fi indie packs in a lot of history and righteous passion for not much budget – even if, to be brutally honest, its core narrative is a very minor part of that history, centred on a bunch of ageing Clash fans.

The Clash are very much the touchstone here. Motivated by musicians such as Eric Clapton echoing the National Front’s racist and anti-immigrant sentiments, Joe Strummer and co became key players in the Rock Against Racism movement in the late 70s, alongside acts including Steel Pulse, Tom Robinson and Aswad. (The 2020 doc White Riot lays out the story in more detail.

After 13 years on YouTube, MatPat is stepping down from hosting Game Theory, Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory.

“Steph and I have known this video would be coming for the last three years,” he says in a 25-minute video uploaded this afternoon. “We weren’t sure it was necessarily gonna be today, we didn’t know exactly when it would fall, but we knew it was gonna happen eventually.”

That’s why, he says, Theorist Media has been staffing up for the past couple of years, and why MatPat and Stephanie agreed to sell the company to Lunar X in late 2022. They’ve been laying the groundwork for MatPat to pull back from hosting and for them both to take a bit of a breather.

As for his reasons for pulling back, MatPat jokingly blames Tom Scott and his epic goodbye video, then gets serious and tells viewers that...

Some classic rock songs have a double meaning that might not be apparent to everyone. A punk rocker said The Beatles’ “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” was about the love life of The Beatles’ gay manager, Brian Epstein. John Lennon discussed the song as well. He said it was inspired by another rock star from the 1960s.

A star said The Beatles’ ‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away’ has gender-swapped lines

Tom Robinson is an English punk rock and new wave singer who has extensively campaigned for LGBTQ rights. During a 2013 interview with The Guardian, he discussed the role of music in his life. “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 16, largely due to the stress of growing up gay, which was illegal back then,” he said. “I was sent to a sort of retreat, where I was taught to accept myself. It also...

Tom Robinson, the rower whose boat capsized in the Pacific Ocean, was rescued by a cruise ship last week. Now home in Australia, Robinson said he’s thinking of trying again.

Robinson, 24, set out to become the youngest person to row across the Pacific Ocean. He left Peru almost a year and a half ago, stopping in the Cook Islands for four months during cyclone season.

“A big wave came out of nowhere and unfortunately I didn’t have the hatch closed to the cabin,” Robinson told the New Zealand Herald. “I held on to the boat for about 14 hours and then… I saw the cruise ship approaching and I knew that I was saved.”

He was rescued by P&o’s Pacific Explorer, which was on a nine-day round trip from Auckland, New Zealand, when it was alerted of Robinson’s state by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The cruise liner made a 200-kilometer detour.

Courtroom movies tend to have a winning formula that appeals to our sense of justice. We never want to see innocent people sent down for crimes they didn’t commit, so a reliable story can usually be built around the process of defending unlucky characters in a court of law. But because so much of that drama transpires on a single set, making a really good courtroom movie requires certain elements to work spectacularly.

You’ll need a great, charismatic lawyer whose life, career, or reputation depends on winning the case. Then there are your defendants, who must be at least a little relatable. After all, any one of us can get mixed up in some unfortunate circumstances given the right series of events! Then there are the witnesses, who must be cajoled into telling the truth, and the opposing counsel, who is often as antagonistic as the injustice itself.

With The Fox, the king of Seventies mass-market pop-rock has finally found a comfortable balance between the churchy turgidity of "serious" efforts like Blue Moves and the irresistible thrust of his finest singles. For a change, there's no glaringly obvious filler, and Elton John's lusty pop gospel singing eschews the earlier extremes of oratorical histrionics and rock & roll brattiness. Tune for tune, these eleven songs make up John's most consistently listenable collection in years.

John also seems determined to regain the grip on the pop mainstream he lost after Rock of the Westies.

We’re now into the fifth year of the Elton John crisis, and frankly some of us here on the Elton watch are getting worried. Ever since 1975, when the anti-John backlash set in and the piano pumper’s finest album, Rock of the Westies, only went umpteen-platinum instead of his usual quadribillion, Elton has sounded confused, bitter, exhausted.

Efforts to reenter John into the mainstream of things failed: Blue Moves (1976) seemed like a smart idea at the time — a double-lp sulk at the height of such psychonarcissisms as est. A Single Man (1978)? Well,...