An anti-Purge Presidential candidate & her chief security guard join forces on the streets with a store owner & his employee to survive the latest Purge.
Central Intelligence (2016)
When Bob, a classmate he had helped 20 years, earlier meets with Calvin, a wild adventure involving the CIA & the sale of secret satellite codes begins.
The Congress (2013)
A fading actress agrees to be scanned so that her digital image can be used by the studio to make films she would have refused. Years later, regretting this, she goes to the Animation Zone in search of her lost son.
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
A group of magicians, operating just outside the law, travel from NYC to Macao to thwart a corporate CEO who has a program to steal cell phone information.
Me Before You (2016)
A girl who loves loud colors for her clothes, after caring for a paraplegic for several weeks, learns he will submit to euthanasia even though he loves her, and despite her pleas.
The Free State of Jones (2016)
I give this Civil War drama 4.5 out of 5 stars. Click the image to read my entire review.
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan returns to Africa with Jane & an American black rep to investigate charges that the Belgian King is cruelly exploiting the native Congolese.
Book Review: Hollywood Epics
“Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day” By Richard Lindsay. Praeger. 2015 Reprinted from the July 2016 issue of Visual Parables. The subtitle immediately puts the potential reader on notice that this book is not just another survey of Hollywood’s attack on, uh, adaptation of, the Bible for the …
America’s Dream (1996)
In 1948 Georgia at a “colored” school, a talented boy presents a birthday present to his teacher, a Christ painted black, creating a dilemma for the principal because his white supervisor is so upset with it.
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
An ordinary British couple vacationing in North Africa become involved with a Russian mafia money launderer desperate to save his family by defecting.