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Watching the filmed version of the Broadway play COME FROM AWAY is a great way to honor the memory of 9/11. The response of the Canadians in the small town of gander Newfoundland is a tonic to any feelings of sorrow or morbidity this horrific event might evoke. See my review of this lively work …
How Rita Moreno overcame sexual abuse & stereotyped casting & became a role model for other Latina women in Stage & Screen,
Shipped off to England to stay with her Aunt, Daisy & her cousins are soon forced to fend for themselves when terrorists try to take over the nation.
A widow takes to the road in a converted van and befriend various fellow nomads while supporting herself at seasonal jobs.
A grieving woman buys a wilderness cabin, trying to break all contact with people, even her sister, but discovers through a compassionate hunter that healing is a communal affair.
The story of journalists, chief of whom is Maria Ressa, waging an uphill battle in the Philippines against Pres. Dutertes & his murderous “War on Drugs,” made very difficult by the government’s lies on social media about its critics being “Fake News.”
A US Capt. at the beginning of WW 2 heads 4 destroyers charged to protect a convoy carrying supplies to England faces a Nazi pack of U-boats.
This is not a biography but a “perfect concert” that Hank Williams, on the night of his death in the back seat of his Cadillac, imagines he will give in a bar rather than the huge hall in Canton Ohio.
A journalist researching a recently deceased photographer from Louisiana falls in love with her daughter in NY, but each has issues that threaten their relationship.
Though some grow weary of films dealing with the concentration camps of the Holocaust, I believe we should welcome each as one more piece of evidence of the toxic end result of anti-Semitism. And in the case of Spanish director Mar Targarona’s film, for the additional information about a particular group of her countrymen who …