Arrival (2016)
I’m giving Arrival 5 stars. Click the image to read my entire review.
Shogun (2024)
Set in the 1600s when Poruguese Catholics have been trading with and have converted a few Japanese, this second adaptation of James Clavell’s historical novel, created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks is so msemerizing that it demands binge watching. Thus far you can watch on Hulu the ten sessions already produced, with two more seasons promised. The …
60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 3
Freedom Summer took place 60 years ago, but my memories of my experience in what semed like a different country are bolstered by the extensive journal entries I wrote at the end of each hot day. Last week I covered our arrival at the little town of Shaw up in the Mississippi delta, the 3-room …
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60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 2
For this 60th anniversary, the veteran film critic and author shares with us his journals from the historic Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
The Old Oak (2023)
Films like Ken Loach’s The Old Oak are why I am still so passionate about well-crafted films, especially those dealing with the down and out, those oppressed by the powerful. His latest protest parable, written by frequent collaborator Paul Laverty, celebrates those victimized by a series of UK conservative powers during the latter years of …
A Call to Spy (2019)
An inspiring true story about 3 brave women spies who radioed valuable info to the Allies from France during the Nazi occupation in WW 2.
The Color Purple (2023)
Songs add to the feelings & actions of the characters in Alice Walker’s musical version of the classic tale of sisterhood.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel a young Pres. Snow mentors Lucy Grey, the composer of “The Hanging Tree” who is to fight in the 10th Hunger Game.
Love Actually (2003)
Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
Brother Outsider the Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
“The forgotten” man’s story who organized the March on Washington & taught MLK nonviolence is told in photos, archival footage & interviews.