Author: Diana Paul

Society of the Snow–The Taste of Friendship

Written by Diana Paul on February 19, 2024. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Society of the Snow–The Taste of Friendship

Society of the Snow is a riveting Spanish film nominated this year for an Academy Award as best foreign film. The opening scenes feature a team of young rugby players ready to board an Uruguayan flight to compete in an international competition in Chile. All hyped up, testosterone driven to realize their team’s rise to...

American Fiction–Truth or Dare

Written by Diana Paul on February 11, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

The 2024 Academy-Award nominated indie film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson, is based upon the 2001 novel, “Erasure”, by Percival Everett. Black novelist and literature professor Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), nicknamed “Monk” (perhaps after the famous jazz musician) is incensed that his novels are not...

Year of the Dragon 2024–February 10, 2024, through Jan. 28, 2025

Written by Diana Paul on February 5, 2024. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! Good luck from dragon fire breathed into your lives with excitement and creativity! 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon. It is particularly a favorable time for change, growth, and progress. The combination of the dragon’s dynamic energy and the grounding and stabilizing...

A Small Light–In a Very Dark World

Written by Diana Paul on January 29, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

A Small Light, a National Geographic eight-episode miniseries, chronicles the life of a young German woman in her twenties, Miep Gies (Bel Powley). Sent as a little girl by her mother to a more safe environment in Amsterdam, unaware that Amsterdam is on the verge of being overtaken by Fascism. Miep, emotionally abandoned by her...

Hunger (2023)–Parasite Anyone?

Written by Diana Paul on January 1, 2024. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

This Thai thriller features a beautiful young woman, Aoy, and a terrifying megalomaniac celebrity chef Paul. Aoy stir-fries noodles in her family’s noodle shop as a fast-food cook alongside her brother and her parents. In contrast, Chef Paul berates his staff mercilessly. In an upscale restaurant environment, Chef Paul is a...

Black Cake–Crumbs from the Past or Just Desserts?

Written by Diana Paul on December 24, 2023. Posted in Television reviews.

In this haunting story of a young girl’s treacherous journey from Jamaica to England and then to California, we see the erasing of her past in order to survive. Black Cake is a Hulu eight-episode miniseries based on the titular best-selling novel by the Jamaican American author, Charmaine Wilkerson. Opening in the late 1960’s with...