A Quiet Passion (2016)
The movie about Emily Dickinson is terrific. Click on the image to read my entire review.
The Quiet Girl (2022)
A shy, quiet Irish girl ignored by her overly taxed pregnant mother and drunkard father blossoms during the summer she spends with loving relatives.
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.
Mending the Line (2022)
Director Joshua Caldwell and scriptwriter Stephen Camelio tell a familiar story—that of a wounded veteran needing more than just physical healing—but with a different twist. The healing comes through fly fishing. And what for a while looks like will become a romance turns out to be something else. And amend that “a wounded veteran needing…healing”–there …
Let Me Have My Son (2023)
Writer/director Cristobal Krusen’s previous two films—Final Solution and Sabina K.–focus upon other people facing crises of values and faith, but his newest film—Let Me Have My Son—is a fictionalized story of his own spiritual journey that centers on his son’s descent into mental illness. He takes us on a surrealistic journey of a father visiting …
GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (1996)
True story of how a white Miss.D.A. & the widow of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers finally brought the murderer to justice years later.
Crushed Wings (2021)
Female Genital Mutilation is seen through the eyes of a village girl, married & sent off to the UK where she finds an advocate & also discovers the practice is cultural, not at all advocated by Islam.
Benediction (2021)
The story of English War Poet Siegfried Sassoon from WW 1 through his many affairs with gay men to his marriage with Hester to his conversion to the Catholic Church.
Jesus Christ: Super Star (2000)
A musical retelling of Christ’s Passion from the viewpoint of Judas that has more anachronisms than the 1973 version–and more energy.
Munich: the Edge of War (2022)
A fictionalized account of the 1938 Munich Treaty signing raises what if? questions & reassess PM Neville Chamberlain’s legacy.