The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. “We’re the people that live,” exclaims Ma Joad at the end of ...

AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck awakened the American conscience to the hapless life of the migrant farm worker. That was exactly 30 years ago. The stoop laborer in the fields today is still a ...

I hadn’t read John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” for 50 years, until now. In it, the Joad family is forced to leave Oklahoma with hundreds of thousands of others during “The Dust Bowl” of the 1930s.

Taking a cue from the success of its various other adaptations — “Interview with the Vampire,” “The Walking Dead,” etc. — AMC will now be producing an anthology series called “The Great American ...

Set in the town of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ tells of the Joad family and their life-altering journey to California during the Dust Bowl events of the 1930s. However, in a rather ...

In this follow-up to the 2020 sleeper hit 'Becky,' Lulu Wilson’s heroine is older but no less mightily ticked-off. Three years ago, Becky was a 13-year-old hopping mad over not just her mother’s ...

As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother and thousands of ...

As a biographer, Iris Jamahl Dunkle has made it a calling to unearth the “lost voices” of history and literature — talented, creative and accomplished women whose contributions have been underplayed, ...