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This fascinating documentary pays tribute to film genius Orson Welles, thanks to the three men listed as directors of the film, the late Richard Wilson (who had worked with Welles), Bill Krohn, and Myron Meisel. Welles was busy, after making his masterful Citizen Kane, editing The Magnificent Ambersons as well as starring in Journey into Fear. …
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Phone videos, newscasts, & interviews thrust us into the mean streets of Ferguson, MO, where blacks (& some whites) react to the killing of unarmed Michael Brown. by a white cop.
A plea for respect & peace, this is the story of 8 ex-soldiers, 4 Israelis & 4 Palestinian, who overcame their hatred & joined together for reconciliation between their peoples.
While serving an oppressive husband and wife in Normandy the much abused (shown in many flashbacks) Celestine schemes with the gardener to steal their wealth & run away to set up their own inn.
The conflict between Russia’s Ivan the Terrible & his Metropolitan Filip is similar to that between England’s King Henry VIII & Thomas More, but more bloody.
Inside: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1,The Theory of Everything, Rosewater, Birdman, Whiplash, Low Down, Interstellar, Big Hero 6, Before I Go to Sleep, T. Hobbit: The Battle of the five Armies, Diplomacy, Citizenfour, Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me, and more.
The true story of a white liberal pastor & a black teacher in Oxford N.C. is told in this story of a fight for justice after a jury acquits 3 whites who murdered a black veteran.
Click onto the film titles (with two exceptions) to see the more detailed review. Inside Out Rated PG. Romans 7:15-20. 11 year-old Riley misses her Minnesota friends and haunts when her parents make a career-based move to San Francisco. The filmmakers visualize her emotional turmoil by taking us inside her mind and giving five emotions …
Click onto a title to read a much longer review. Diplomacy Not Rated. Genesis 22:9-12. The filmmakers effectively open up a stage play that condenses into one night a series of confrontations between two strong-willed men in Paris during August of 1944. The men are General Dietrich von Choltitz, the recently arrived Nazi governor of …
Bilbo & friends must deal with Thorin’s greed if they are able to stand together against the huge army of Orc’s that Sauron has sent to the Lonely Mountain.