Year: 2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A BOLO for Justice

Written by diana on December 17, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A BOLO for Justice

Guest blogger extraordinaire Bill Clark Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s film, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), takes us along Mildred Hayes’ journey as she deals with the unsolved murder-rape of her teenage daughter. Brilliantly played by Frances McDormand, bereaved mother, Mildred, decides to take on the avuncular police...

The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

Written by diana on December 12, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

In Sophia Coppola’s reinterpretation of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film by the same name, The Beguiled opens with an eleven-year-old girl gathering mushrooms in her straw basket deep in a quiet wood in Virginia. Conjuring an image of Little Red Riding Hood soon coming upon a big bad wolf, we see her discover the wounded John McBurney...

Lady Bird– A Girl’s Flight from Home

Written by diana on December 3, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on Lady Bird– A Girl’s Flight from Home

by Guest Blogger Bill Clark, photographer, mixed media artist, and fellow movie fiend “Lady Bird” should have another title. For those of us who remember LBJ’s wife, nicknamed Lady Bird, this title confuses a potential audience.] Greta Gerwig (first-time director and screenwriter,) takes us on the journey of seventeen-year-old...

Mudbound–Mired in the Mississippi Delta

Written by diana on November 27, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Mudbound–Mired in the Mississippi Delta

Set in the Deep South in1939 and then fast-forwarding to World War II, Mudbound is an epic of two families–one white (McAllan) and one black (Jackson)–who are severely constrained by the Jim Crow laws and customs in Alabama. The two McAllan brothers, Henry and Jamie, epitomize Cain and Abel. The Jacksons are sharecroppers...

Goodbye Christopher Robin – The Story Behind Winnie the Pooh

Written by diana on November 21, 2017. Posted in movie reviews.

Guest Blogger, Mary Marcus, is a movie lover and enthusiastic reviewer. Repressed feelings and isolation are channeled through writing what would be a children’s classic about a young boy and his animal friends in this historical drama, Goodbye Christopher Robin. England after the First World War had rigid social rules and manners for the...

“What If”–She Doesn”t Understand?

Written by diana on November 14, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on “What If”–She Doesn”t Understand?

"What If" is a well-written movie about two millennials who meet at a party and unexpectedly decide to start a friendship.