This is the second film in which director/writer Julio Quintana chronicles the struggles of a group of Latinos—and Dennis Quaid was also in Quintana’s Blue Miracle. The new film is based on Humberto G. Garcia’s 2010 non-fiction book Mustang Miracle that celebrates an all Latino high school golf team that was the first such team …
Vengeance (2022)
A smug New Yorker travels to west Texas to attend the funeral of a girl he barely knew & finds all his stereotypes challenged by her family.
News of the World (2020)
While returning an orphaned girl raised by Native Americans to her family a Civil War veteran runs into problems in racist Texas.
Lead Belly (1976)
The early days of country/blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, from leaving home to playing in night spots through his several incarcerations to his “discovery” by John Lomax.
Boys State (2020)
This is documentary of the 2018 Boys State Convention in Texas that mirrors well the strengths & the weaknesses of adult politics & of democracy.
The Banker (2020)
Two black men hire & train a white to be their front so they can buy real estate & eventually a bank from racist businessmen in the 1960s.
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (2019)
Click the movie title to read my review of this documentary about the tough and funny Texas columnist Molly Ivins.
PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)
Places in the Heart, set in 1930s Texas, is the story of a black field hand helping a widowed white produce a successful cotton harvest, ending with an unusual Communion service.
Vice (2018)
How Dick Cheney reformed at the insistence of his wife and rose to become Vice President and shaper of policy for Pres. Bush
I Can Only Imagine (2018)
An abused son aspiring to be a Christian musician seeks reconciliation with his dying father leads to a hit song.