Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people spilled into downtown Los Angeles to protest a president whose promise to “make America great again” threatens to turn back the clock on civil liberties for marginalized groups at least several decades. Coincidentally, just two days earlier, the Chinese American Museum opened “Roots:......
Though Hayao Miyazaki celebrated his 76th birthday last week, the Japanese director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli is most known for the buoyantly childlike yet worldly spirit in many of his iconic films. From fantastical romps like My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo to more somber meditations like Nausicaä of the......