Lynsey, a wounded Army vet, returns to New Orleans & bonds with a Black man who also has suffered a trauma, but not in a romantic way because she prefers girls.
Causeway (2022)
Hala (2019)
Hala is the story of a Pakistani-American teenage girl struggling against traditional parents who would destroy her freedom–& includes the mother’s struggle as well.
Barry (2020)
To read my review of this film version of Barack Obama’s early life, click on the film title.
IT (2017)
A group of kids called The Losers pledge to find and kill It, which is an evil clown named Pennywise who returns to the town every 27 years to kill children.
Grace Unplugged (2013)
In this faith-based film a father and daughter clash over their singing, the daughter wanting to launch into the secular musical world.
The Patience Stone
This film set in a Middle Eastern nation during a civil war is a feminist story of liberation from patriarchal oppression.
The Spectacular Now
Rated R. Our ratings: V -0; L -4; S -5/N-1. Running time: 1 hour 35 min. But when he came to himself Luke 15:17 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 Based on the novel by Tim Tharp, director James Ponsoldt’s delightful coming …
The Way Way Back (2013)
An excellent comedy-drama, this is the story of 14 year-old Duncan’s emerging from his cocoon of shyness, thanks to the help of the crazy talking Owen who hires him at a water park.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
In Depression era Alabama two young children of a white lawyer witness their father buck racism by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman.