See You Yesterday (2019)
This sci-fi film in which 2 teenagers of color try to change a tragedy by inventing time machines & traveling back a day is set amidst the Black Lives Matter protests.
Atlantics (2019)
In Senegal a young Muslim girl pledged to a wealthy man loves a worker being cheated of his wages, and when he dies at sea but returns as a ghost, she & the other girls take up the cause of unpaid wages.
How “Spirit of America” Came to Be
I have posted on FaceBook the video “Spirit of America” for which this provides background information. The attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001 left the nation in shock and mourning. A total of almost 3000 people died in the Twin Towers in New York, at the …
Barry (2020)
To read my review of this film version of Barack Obama’s early life, click on the film title.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Sonic is a blue hedgehog, superfast, who when he enters Earth is chased by a mad scientist but helped by a smalltown cop who wants more excitement on the San Francisco PD.
The Assistant (2019)
Writer/director Kitty Green, hitherto a documentarian, tackles in her first feature film the theme of power, similar to that in Bombshell, but in a far less sensational way. Indeed her film is so prosaic that after a half hour one must force oneself to keep one’s attention focused upon the shots of humdrum procedures common …
Bombshell (2019)
The story of 3 women sexually harassed by Roger Ailes at Fox News and their lawsuit that forced him to leave.
The Aeronauts (2019)
In this account of the 1862 balloon flight that set a world altitude record for many decades, one of the areonauts is depicted as a woman.
Midway (2019)
The story of WW 2 Battle of Midway is realistically depicted , mainly from the side of the US heroes, but also with numerous respectful scenes of the Japanese officers.
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
When banker Andy Dufresne is wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his cheating wife, he forms a friendship with Red that benefits both & finally enables him to outwit the warden.