This 4-part Neflix series chronicles the rise of Madame C.J. Walker from laundress to sales woman to the head of a national cosmetics business.
Self Made: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
A Hidden Life (2019)
The story of how Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter refused to salute Hitler or serve in the army, resulting in his martyrdom.
Lucy in the Sky (2019)
Loosely base on reality, this is the story of the breakdown of a married female astronaut, enthralled with space, but has a meltdown when her illicit lover falls for another astronaut.
Rosie (2018)
Rosie struggles to find a night’s lodging for her homeless family (husband & 4 children), forced out of their rented house when it is sold.
The African Doctor (2016)
French director Julien Rambaldi’s true story about freshly graduated Dr. Seyolo Zantoko (Marc Zinga) reveals that racial prejudice is not just an American or South African concern. Even in France, to which so many African American singers and musicians once fled for refuge, there are pockets of racism. Although in cosmopolitan Paris blacks were accepted …
Wildlife (2018)
Jerry loses his job, abruptly goes to fight a forest fire, wife Jeanette reacts angrily by having a fling while son Joe helplessly looks on.
The Wife (2017)
Our Content ratings (1-10): Violence 0; Language 3; Sex/Nudity 2. Although Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) does not spin or make clothing for her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce), she certainly has been the “capable wife” described at the end of the Book of Proverbs. She has, we will see, done far more in their long …
JOB
JOB Far shorter than The Prophet Job, the Australian film that uses the texts of Job as its script, preacher/poet John Piper’s film captures the essence of the Biblical book in his poem that features some delightful rhymes. He transforms the original into a Christian book by dividing it into four parts, each of which …
Damsel (2018)
A surprising and delightful movie. Click the image to read my entire review.
Damsel (2018)
In the Old West a suitor & a fake parson search for a woman who turns out to be far from the damsel in distress the lover had thought her to be.