Tod Browning's 1932 "Freaks" was blacklisted in its time. Today, it is held up as one of the only films in the country where the majority of the cast are individuals with disabilities. Thursday, the Coolidge Corner Theater hosted an event about the film and disability representation with speaker IndieWire TV Editor Kristen Lopez.

We should not protect someone from the consequences of their actions simply because they are a high-profile actor.

After Emmy winner, executive producer and Hollywood star Michael Chiklis’s new show “Coyote” premiered on CBS, the actor virtually “came back” to his roots. Chiklis, a 1985 alumnus of CFA, discussed the new drama and the highs and lows of his career in a webinar last Thursday with the college's dean, Harvey Young.

In the mid-20th century, a streak of anti-communist paranoia swept the United States as it entered the Cold War. This time of fearful conservatism proved deadly to Hollywood, where liberal filmmakers'...