Month: December 2019

My Top 15 Movies and TV Series for 2019

Written by Diana Paul on December 31, 2019. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

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 under broad distribution nor widely distributed through move theaters. Of the 43 reviews, here are my favorites. Another difficult year to make my listicle. As in past years,...

Knock Down the House—A Remodel is Needed

Written by diana on December 20, 2019. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

This investigative journalistic documentary invites the viewer to take a closer look at four committed women who ran for Congress in 2018: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Cori Bush of Maryland, Paula Jean Swearengin of West Virginia, and Amy Vilela of Nevada. First and foremost, however, Knock...

Luce—A Beam of Light?

Written by diana on December 16, 2019. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Luce the movie The title character, Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is an all-star athlete and model straight-A student who is expected to achieve greatness in college. Luce’s liberal adoptive parents—physician Amy (Naomi Watts) and financier Peter (Tim Roth) adopted Luce when he was a little boy in Eritrea, a boy-soldier who...

Booksmart—Today’s “Breakfast Club”?

Written by diana on December 10, 2019. Posted in movie reviews.

Booksmart follows two academic superstars and high school best friends who, the night before graduation, suddenly realize that they should have worked less and played more. Major late-blooming FOMO!

Month: December 2019

My Top 15 Movies and TV Series for 2019

Knock Down the House—A Remodel is Needed

Luce—A Beam of Light?

Booksmart—Today’s “Breakfast Club”?

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