All the Light We Cannot See (2023)
A French & a German teenager listen in 1934 to a “Professor” speak about light & 10 years later are brought together by her shortwave radio broadcasts.
Fremont (2023)
In America a lonely, guilt-ridden Afghanistan female refugee working at a fortune cookie factory visits a therapist seeking sleeping pills.
The Swimmers (2022)
The true story of 2 Syrian refugee sisters, one of whom became an Olympic swiimer & the other who joined a refugee aiding agency.
Upcoming CR Film in November: RUSTIN
I want to alert you to the new film Rustin, due out on November 3 in theaters and then on November 17, on Netflix. But first, a little background. Bayard Rustin is not as well known in the Civil Rights Pantheon as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, or even …
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023)
Gus dies so most of the family accept an invitation to return to his Greek home town & pass on his journal to his friends, with funny results.
Golda (2023)
Golda Meir is depicted as a strong & compassionate Israeli Prime Minister during the dark days of the Yom Kippur War when Israel was almost defeated by a Soviet-backed Arab coalition.
Tiger Within (2020)
In L.A. an elderly Holocaust survivor befriends a homeless Goth teenager from Ohio despite the swastika on the back of her jacket.
Sound of Freedom (2023)
A highly fictionalized account of a real-life Home Security agent who rescued a boy and then his sister from sexual slavery in Mexico & Columbia.
Blackberry (20023)
Canadian director Matt Johnson and co-writer Matthew Miller have gifted us with a comic take on the development of the first smartphone that came to be dubbed the BlackBerry. The meteoritic rise and fall of the company known as RIM, Research in Motion, based in Waterloo, Ontario, is emphasized by the hand-held camera work of …
Clown in Kabul (2002)
I just discovered this Italian documentary about Dr. Patch Adams’ trip to Afghanistan in 2002 with over twenty other clowns and volunteers. I loved the 1999 Robin Williams film Patch Adams based on Adams’ rocky start as a doctor who believed that clowns belonged in hospitals as well as circuses. I have checked on him …