A closeted Moroccan gay tailor hires a young apprentice, & the attraction between the 2 arouses the jealousy of his wife.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)
A still grieving bookstore owner’s life is changed when he becomes the ward of an abandoned girl just after a prized book is stolen.
ELVIS (2922)
Made in dazzling style, this film exposes the toxic relationship between singer Elvis Presley and the influence of Black music upon him and his friendship with B.B. King.
The Book Keepers (2022)
While promoting his wife Carol’s book Dick Wall finds healing while grieving over her death as his son films the nation-wide road trip.
Citizen Kane (1941)
A man, unloved as a child & raised by a stranger, seeks love and power by publishing a newspaper, marrying well, & running for governor, his life ending alone.
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.
I Still Believe (2020)
The story of famous singer Jeremy camp’s rise to fame and his first love, whose lost to cancer tested his faith.
1917 (2019)
During WW I, to save 1600 British soldiers from a German trap, 2 soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to call off their attack.
Little Women (2019)
This new version of the classic novel is terrific! Click the title to read my entire review.