The main action of “No Man’s Land” – the flight of a young Texan on the lam from the law in Mexico – is precipitated by something of a head-scratcher. When Jackson (Jake Allyn), the son of a cattle rancher whose land lies north of the Rio Grande but south of the border wall, is […]

In the exquisitely constructed, deeply unnerving “MLK/FBI,” filmmaker Sam Pollard takes viewers behind the looking glass into the shadowy world of governmental surveillance during the mid-century civil rights movement, a program of spying, infiltration and harassment that reached its perverse apotheosis with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s obsession with Martin Luther King, Jr. Since King’s […]