PURSUIT OF FREEDOM DEMONSTRATES REFUGEE ANGST Based on a true story, Pursuit of Freedom begins in 2007, when life of a Ukrainian family near the Russian border is depicted as precarious (though most filming is in a town in Texas). Razmig (Mike Markoff), the father, is trying to support his wife, three children, and a […]
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THE WALK TELLS WHAT WAS WRONG ABOUT SOUTHSIDE BOSTON When the Supreme Court decided Brown v Board of Education in 1954, the focus was on the southern states, where Blacks sometimes lived near Whites but went to different schools. Yet in northern cities school segregation existed because of residential segregation. While the focus was on
I’M CHARLIE WALKER IS A BIOPIC ABOUT A BLACK ENTREPRENEUR Director Patrick Gilles has chosen a unique person to honor in I’m Charlie Walker. A self-confident African American living in San Francisco in the 1970s, driving a truck, is being treated as a second class citizen by many employers until one day he learns of
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THE WALK TELLS WHAT WAS WRONG ABOUT SOUTHSIDE BOSTON When the Supreme Court decided Brown v Board of Education in 1954, the focus was on the southern states, where Blacks sometimes lived near Whites but went to different schools. Yet in northern cities school segregation existed because of residential segregation. While the focus was on
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WATERMAN CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF DUKE KAHANAMOKU The only American with statues erected in his honor in several countries of the world is Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku. But he was not born in the United States. He was born in 1890 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʽi and began living from the age of
MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR PROVIDES ANOTHER WINDOW INTO WORLD WAR II Films about World War II are endless, and Munich: The Edge of War fills a gap about the Munich Agreement of 1938. The story is based on the 2017 novel by Robert Harris, who wrote the novel that became the film Enigma, which
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IF YOU SEE DON’T LOOK UP, YOU MAY LAUGH OR JUST BE DISGUSTED Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay, is supposed to be a satire of life in the United States from the humblest to the mightiest. During the Obama Administration, a mission to explore an asteroid was launched, though plans did not come
WHICH IS WORSE—2012 or 2016? The feature film 2012 was a bit of science fiction, predicting the end of the world. The documentary 2016 is a hatchet job by conservative Dinesh D’Souza who pretends that he was originally mesmerized by Barack Obama, found him to be a mystery once in office, then did some research
BOMBSHELL REVEALS THE SEXIST FOXNEWS CULTURE Jay Roach directs Bombshell to demonstrate the downfall of FoxNews CEO Roger Ailes (played by John Lithgow) and Bill O’Reilly (Kevin Dorff). The film reveals that females cannot appear on the cable network unless they first show off their bodies to Ailes—and more. They accept Ailes’s prejudices to get
QUEEN & SLIM TRACES FUGITIVES FROM POLICE MISCONDUCT A blind date arranged from a social media website brings together two African Americans, nicknamed Queen (played by Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), in Cleveland, Ohio, one evening to dine at a restaurant. She found him attractive on the website, eats little, and wants to return