AVATAR: The Way of Water (2022)
The Na’vi family has to flee to a distant land of water & learn new ways when the humans return to Pandora’s moon to rape it for minerals.
Hell or High Water (2016)
This is a 5-star movie with the return of Jeff Bridges as a tough Texas Ranger. Click the image to read my entire review.
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.
Storm Warning (1950)
The people who made this early film about the KKK water down its attack, as we will see, with the script barely mentioning racism. It is distinguished mainly because it features three stars who seldom appeared in a film purportedly dealing seriously with social issues. Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagan were better known …
The Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)
Director/co-writer (with his wife Rebekah) Joshua Weigel tells a story that we’d say is too Pollyannish, but for the fact that it is based on a true story. It is a heart-warming story of a community of people opening their hearts to dozens of abused children, so broken that no one wanted to take them …
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Asphalt City (2023)
French-born director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has gifted us with the most harrowing parable about an ambulance medic since Martin Scorsese’ 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. That title fits the newer film as well, with so many of the victims treated by the two medics in this story dying before or just after arriving at the hospital, …
Causeway (2022)
Lynsey, a wounded Army vet, returns to New Orleans & bonds with a Black man who also has suffered a trauma, but not in a romantic way because she prefers girls.
The Good House (2021)
A money-strapped alcoholic woman in a New England town rekindles a romance with an old flame & amidst tragedy faces up to her problem.
Clemency (2019)
The warden of a prison is deeply affected by the ordeal of presiding over executions, especially of her 12th, who might well be innocent of killing a police officer.
1917 (2019)
During WW I, to save 1600 British soldiers from a German trap, 2 soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to call off their attack.