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Posted on March 17, 2022March 17, 2022

Writing With Fire (2022)

Dalit female journalists staffing a newspaper in northern India are often the only ones brave enough to advocate the rights of raped women & seek improved conditions for villagers.

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

See Interview with NEWS OF THE WORLD Director Paul Greenglass

r This morning (Monday, Jan. 12) I was privileged to be part of a group of 7 film reviewers who met via Zoom with Paul Greenglass, director of the new Tom Hanks film NEWS OF THE WORLD.  Look in on us on YouTube by clicking this. I think you’ll enjoy the film even more if …

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Posted on December 23, 2020December 29, 2020

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.

Posted on December 21, 2019

Richard Jewell (2019)

Security guard Richard Jewell is falsely accused of making the bomb that killed 2 & injured over 100 people at the 1966 Atlantic Olympics.

Posted on January 20, 2014April 24, 2014

ENTERTAINING ANGELS: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)

The early years of the work of activist Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, is well told. An unlikely saint, she once wrote for a Communist journal.

Posted on January 14, 2014February 12, 2021

CRY FREEDOM (1987)

The friendship of black activist Steve Biko & journalist Donald Woods, set in S. Africa, is told up to Steve’s death & Woods & family fleeing the country.

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