Mudbound (2017)
I give this film 5 out of 5 stars. Click the image to read my entire review.
Mud (2013)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-5; L-4; S/N-2. Running time: 2 hours 10 min. Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hands are false. Psalm 144.11 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room f or the wrath of God;* for it is …
One Life (2023)
Almost exactly 24 years ago I reviewed the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers that told the story of the Kindertransport, a group of projects involving ten thousand Jewish children whom kind-hearted people were able to transport to England from Hitler-dominated Europe just before World War Two erupted. Director James Hawes’s, film straddling two time …
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
The expanded story of how Dracula got to England & the terrible fate the crew of the ship transporting him.
The Captain (2017)
If there is any truth in that old maxim “Clothes make the man,” then it must go double if those clothes are in the form of a military uniform conferring even a moderate rank upon its wearer. Such is the case in German director/writer Robert Schwentke’s harrowing World War II drama, filmed in crisp black …
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
The horrors of WW 1 trench warfare are on full display in a story of a German youth whose ideals are destroyed by the brutal fighting, as well as the indifference of upper class officers who never suffer the consequences of their orders.
Catherine Called Birdy (2022)
The coming of age story of a lively Medieval girl who comes up with funny tricks to repulse the suiters her father brings so he can pay debts.
Writing With Fire (2022)
Dalit female journalists staffing a newspaper in northern India are often the only ones brave enough to advocate the rights of raped women & seek improved conditions for villagers.
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Phil, resenting his bother George getting married, vows to drive her & her effeminate son off their Montana ranch by driving her mad.
3 Books on Racism and a YouTube Video
I have just finished reading 2 books that expose the poison of racism, one very graphically, and the other in the lofty prose of the essay (but just as forcefully)–COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI and LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America. Both …