She Said (2022)
Two NYT reporters, investigating tales of abuse by Harvey Weinstein, will not give up, even when most women are too afraid to talk.
The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
By detailing the story of Emmett Till’s abduction & murder in MS in 1955 the documentary powerfully reveals the horror of segregation.
The Woman King (2022)
Two women of 19th C. Dahomey’s Agojie, the female part of the kingdom’s army , one the general & the other a recruit, find they have a bond in the traumatic past.
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
A female narratologist in Istanbul is wooed by the Djinn in a bottle she has purchased, he hoping she will set him free by making 3 wishes, but when she refuses, he tells her stories of his past to convince her.
A League of Their Own (2022)
During WW 2 a group of white women face sexism on a baseball team while a Black woman ballplayer is rejected because of her race.
Breaking (2022)
A Marine veteran mistreated by the VA desperately holds hostages at his bank to gain attention & get the money owed him by the VA.
Resurrection (2022)
A career mother raising her daughter alone spots the man who long ago abused her and now cautiously stalking her.
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening–A Good Read
I became interested in reading this book while reviewing the documentary film The Book Keepers. The book is a memoir of an unusual friendship between a white Southern woman, Carol Wall, and Giles Owita, a Kenyan holding several jobs, including gardener. Ms. Wall, a writer for 20 years for Southern Living magazine had struggled …
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The Duke (2020)
A feisty working class Brit opposed to the TV license fee stands trial for the theft of Goya’s “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington.”
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022)
A demented Black man agrees to a white doctor’s deal to take his serum so he can remember a treasure & find the murderer of his nephew, much to the disapproval of the young Black woman caring for him.