The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Sometimes in April 2005)
A mixed group of women, locked into a cellar for safekeeping during the Rwandan Genocide, must find ways to get along despite their hostile feelings.
Rosewood (1997)
This harrowing true story based on a racist massacre of Blacks manages to inspire hope due to the efforts of a few courageous Blacks, and even some whites, to help victims.
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.
Babylon (2022)
An over the top tale of the rise & fall of stars during the debauched era when Hollywood was transitioning from silent to sound films.
The Whale (2022)
A guilt-ridden obese gay father tries to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned years ago so he could live with a suicidal gay partner.
Empire of Light (2022)
Mentally disturbed Hilary & the younger Black Stephen who work at a British movie palace have a brief affair amidst the racism of the 1980s.
The Inspection(2022)
A homosexual son, cast out by his mother whom he nonetheless loves & continues to contact, joins the Marines to reform his life, but not his sex.
I Heard the Bells (2022)
The inspiring story of how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose from tragedy to write the carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” during the dark days of the Civil War.
Homebody (2022)
A boy enters his beloved baby sitter’s body as he explores gender, with some unexpected, funny, & in one moment, dangerous result.