The 33 (2015)
When 33 Chilean miners are trapped by a cave-in, the government intervenes because the company wants to give up on them, there ensuing a rescue with many setbacks.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
As Holocaust stories go, this is very mild, and thus a suitable film for introducing children to the subject. There are no Gestapo round-up of Jews, street beatings, or any trace of barbed wire, not to speak of ovens or mass shootings. Just a family story fortunate enough to have a father who can …
60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 4
This time in Part 8 of my Journal I start by mentioning our failure to draw students for a Freedom School–not everthing was successful– and then move on to describe our meeting with the most striking person that I have ever met, Fanny Lou Hamer. It was at a Freedom Rally in Cleveland, the county …
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IF (2024)
Writer/director John Krasinski’s fantasy offers a great opportunity for a family with children to enjoy an outing at the local theater. A tale of recapturing one’s childhood imagination as we grow up, it is a delightful blend of live actors and animated characters that in one way might remind you of Toy Story. Twelve-year-old Bea …
The Ascent (1977)
Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko only made four films before her untimely death in 1979 at the age of 41 in an auto accident while working on what would have been her fifth. Yet had she made only this one, a war film with religious allegory at its heart, this would still ensure her place among …
Origin (2023)
True story of a Black scholar studies Nazism in Germany & Dalits in India because she believes that racism is not the only reason for Trayvon Martin’s death.
Genius: MLK/X –Part 1
In this 8-part series the parallel lives of Malcolm X & MLK, Jr. unfold, from their boyhood to their maturity as each fights racism in their own way.
The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)
The Pope’s exorcist is sent to Spain to free a demon-possessed boy and discovers a long-kept secret about the Spanish Inquisition.
Afire (2023)
A writer whose 2nd novel stinks retreats with a friend to a seaside cabin to revise it where they become involved with a girl already there.
Two Tickets to Greece (2022)
A shy woman at odds with a flamboyant friend from college days sets out for Greece, with many a flareup along the way, becoming more complicated when they encounter a third woman.