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The Salesman–Not Exactly Arthur Miller

Written by diana on July 17, 2017. Posted in movie reviews.

This 2017 Academy Winner for Best Foreign Film defies easy categorization. The masterful Asghar Farhadi is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the 2013 Cannes Winner, “The Past”, the 2011 Academy Award Winner of “A Separation” and his most recent, The Salesman. All three of these Iranian films are idiosyncratic...

The Keepers–Another Spotlight

Written by diana on July 1, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Keepers–Another Spotlight

The Keepers explores the 1969 death of 26-year old Catholic nun and Baltimore schoolteacher Sister Cathy Cesnik and touches on 20-year-old Joyce Malecki's murder four days later. Both slayings remain unsolved. The cover up that follows has echoes of "Spotlight".

Cezanne et Moi–Artistic Jealousy

Written by diana on June 27, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on Cezanne et Moi–Artistic Jealousy

Cézanne et Moi portrays the troubled friendship between the Post-Impressionist master Paul Cézanne and the Nobel Prize-nominated novelist Émile Zola .

The Wizard of Lies–Decades of Untruth

Written by diana on June 12, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Wizard of Lies–Decades of Untruth

This HBO TV drama (which premiered on May 20, 2017) chronicles the infamous Wall Street meltdown of financier Bernie Madoff's $64 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, perhaps the largest financial fraud in US history.

The Handmaid’s Tale–In Service of Democracy?

Written by diana on May 14, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 1 Comment on The Handmaid’s Tale–In Service of Democracy?

The Handmaid’s Tale, based upon the psychological award-winning 1985 sci-fi thriller by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, is the Hulu adaptation of the dystopian Republic of Gilead, a fascist autocracy resulting from a religious coup, a war focused mainly on women. Within the borders of what was formerly the United States of...

The Circle– A Cautionary Tale

Written by diana on May 7, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on The Circle– A Cautionary Tale

[David Spiselman is guest blogger for this review and author of CypherGhost, Book 7 of the Spies Lie series, an Amazon bestseller, under his pen name D.S. Kane]. The Circle, based upon the 2013 bestselling novel by Dave Eggers, is a flawed movie but an important one. The Circle is the first movie to explore the balance between openness...