Year: 2018

“I Am Not Your Negro”–James Baldwin

Written by diana on February 4, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. No Comments on “I Am Not Your Negro”–James Baldwin

Nominated this year for the Academy Award for best documentary, I Am Not Your Negro is the best film in this category I have ever seen. An indie film (and PBS Independent Lens program) I Am Not Your Negro gives us a fuller understanding of the brilliant mind and soul of James Baldwin, a critical thinker, writer, and essayist, whose work is not as well-known as it should be. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind thirty pages of an unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, interweaving his incisive and excoriating psychological analysis of race, national identity,...

“The Post”–High Stakes

Written by diana on January 26, 2018. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments on “The Post”–High Stakes

Perhaps no other film this year captures two important political moments of our time: the issue of fake news and “me too”, the invisibility of women’s voices, until they were not. The Post is high-stakes filmmaking. Released this month, The Post is already receiving wide-ranging, intensely opposing reviews. The Post opens with a scene of an American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg shocked by the depths of continued deceit in hiding the loss of American lives in the Vietnam War, under four successive presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson). Ellsberg photocopies...

My Top 19 Movies and TV Series for 2017

Written by diana on January 18, 2018. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 8 Comments on My Top 19 Movies and TV Series for 2017

Here are the reviews I wrote this year with the criteria that they were available online or were at local movie theaters, although not necessarily widely distributed. Of the 45 reviews, here are my favorites. It was much more difficult than in past years, since this year was absolutely stunning as was 2016. Both television and cinema have continued to produce phenomenal story-telling. The following list is not ranked, only grouped by genre. I could not limit my choices to only 10. INDIES and FOREIGN CINEMA 1) “Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri”: A BOLO for Justice”...

Chinese New Year 2018 –Year of the Brown Earth Dog (Friday, February 16-March 2, 2018)

Written by diana on January 3, 2018. Posted in Lunar New Year. 3 Comments on Chinese New Year 2018 –Year of the Brown Earth Dog (Friday, February 16-March 2, 2018)

Happy New Year! The Year of the Earth Dog (11th sign of the Chinese zodiac) could be a turning point in history. Born in the Year of the Fire Dog, Donald Trump fits the profile of a fiery, aggressive leader, one who finds it difficult for him to control his emotions, and his desire to dominate others will be very intense, indeed. As Trump has already indicated, he will use every means at his disposal to retain his position and get what he wants. This, almost certainly, will result in conflict and chaos of some type. Those born in any of the variety of Years of the Dog are quick to anger,...

Year: 2018

“I Am Not Your Negro”–James Baldwin

“The Post”–High Stakes

My Top 19 Movies and TV Series for 2017

Chinese New Year 2018 –Year of the Brown Earth Dog (Friday, February 16-March 2, 2018)

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