SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU PORTRAYS 2 SENTIMENTAL DATES Director/writer Richard Tanne poses a question in Southside With You: How did Barack Obama sweep Michelle Robinson off her feet? The answer is found in a concise film consisting of preparation for a first date, the first date, and the second date ending with a kiss. Whereas Michelle […]
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU PORTRAYS 2 SENTIMENTAL DATES Director/writer Richard Tanne poses a question in Southside With You: How did Barack Obama sweep Michelle Robinson off her feet? The answer is found in a concise film consisting of preparation for a first date, the first date, and the second date ending with a kiss. Whereas Michelle
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TANNA IS MARGARET MEAD’S DREAM COME TRUE What was it like in the Hawaiian Islands before the arrival of Captain Cook in 1778? There is no better portrayal on the screen than in Tanna, a contemporary Australian movie filmed on the island of Tanna, south of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila. Tanna was visited by Captain
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DENIAL IS A LAW SCHOOL TEXTBOOK CASE FOR LIBEL On April 11, 2000, a British judge issued a landmark ruling on academic libel case in which David Irving (played by Timothy Spall), a British historian denying the Holocaust, sued Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), an Emory University professor. Based on her book History on Trial: My
TWO MUST DECIDE THEIR FATE IN HELL OR HIGH WATER The bank threatens to foreclose on a home occupied by a Texan’s sons and former wife. The economy has gone bust, no income stream is rolling in, so what does Toby Howard (played by Chris Pine) do? What can he do? Rather than becoming a
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THE PEOPLE VS FRITZ BAUER REVEALS HOW EICHMANN WAS CAUGHT Dr. Fritz Bauer (played by Burghart Klaussner), Attorney General of the West German state of Hesse, was determined to put Nazi war criminals on trial but was opposed by many former Nazi employees who held positions in the government of Konrad Adenauer. He particularly wanted
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THE BITE OF WAR DOGS IS WORSE THAN ITSBARK Based on an article in Rolling Stone, War Dogs explains how millions have been made in the arms trade in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. When Dick Cheney arranged for no-bid contractor friends to cash in on both wars, there was an outcry. Accordingly, the Defense
THE BITE OF WAR DOGS IS WORSE THAN ITSBARK Based on an article in Rolling Stone, War Dogs explains how millions have been made in the arms trade in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. When Dick Cheney arranged for no-bid contractor friends to cash in on both wars, there was an outcry. Accordingly, the Defense
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SULLY PORTRAYS A “DUKE” OF NEW YORK Chesley Sullenberger (played by Tom Hanks), nicknamed Sully, is the pilot who landed a commercial airplane on the Hudson River in January 2009 after both engines failed to operate due to a sudden influx of birds. As expected, the film reenacts the landing and rescue of all passengers
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN IS A KID’S MOVIE FOR ADULTS Director David Yates tries to blend the story about the origins of Tarzan, reared by apes, with the rape of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium. Titles at the beginning inform that the international conference in Berlin during 1884/85, when the African continent
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