“Thirteen Reasons Why”–The Amber of the Moment
Thirteen Reasons Why: A Netflix Original TV mini-series about teen suicide
Month: April 2017
13th –Not a Lucky Number
13th
The Academy award-nominated documentary by director Ava DuVernay (Selma) opens with the deeply disturbing fact that, even though the U.S. has only 5 percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. This is mass incarceration and it is deeply ingrained with race and our judicial system.
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“Land of Mine” (2015)–Made for You and Me
"Land of Mine"--a harrowing depiction of what many consider Denmark's worst war crime
“Pure”–A Torn Soul
"Pure" is a portrait of a 20-year-old girl who is determined to flee her dreary grungy life, bullied by tormenters at school and neglected by her alcoholic prostitute mother. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart's Requiem, opening up a new world to a soul aching for an intellectual life.
“The Accountant” – A Hidden Asset
The Accountant is a 2016 action thriller starring Ben Affleck