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“Loving”–The Right to Choose

Written by diana on March 13, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Loving”–The Right to Choose

LOVING movie Loving, directed by Jeff Nichols (“Mud”), is based on Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia invalidating state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. (The archaic term “miscegenation” was used in those days.) Much of the United States...

Manchester by the Sea– Rocking the Boat

Written by diana on March 7, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on Manchester by the Sea– Rocking the Boat

This is Manchester by the Sea’s most glaring fault: This film misses an opportunity to look more critically and more complexly at how things are for someone so grief-stricken.

Moonlight–An Eclipse

Written by diana on February 27, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Moonlight–An Eclipse

This highly inventive film, “Moonlight”, chronicles the life of a young African American man from childhood to adolescence to adulthood (with three different actors) in the inner city of Miami. In three acts we see this coming-of-age story of a young boy who has to face poverty, and a drug-addicted mother (played by the...

La La Land–Insipid But Entertaining

Written by diana on February 19, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on La La Land–Insipid But Entertaining

This 2016 Academy Award nominated musical (a record-tying 14 nominations), written and directed by Damien Chazelle (the wunderkind creator of the astonishing Whiplash, see my December 8, 2014 review) is this year’s can-do-no-wrong rom-com starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. La La Land is a bold resurrection of the Fred...

“Department Q Trilogy”–Danish Noir

Written by diana on February 5, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 5 Comments on “Department Q Trilogy”–Danish Noir

Based on Danish author, Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling crime thrillers, the riveting Department Q series has become one of Denmark’s most popular cinematic exports. The entire series has been released on video on demand (through Netflix). This series needs more visibility and exposure--it is a viewing must!

“Hidden Figures”–A Gestalt for Our Time

Written by diana on January 31, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on “Hidden Figures”–A Gestalt for Our Time

The little-known story of three brilliant African American women pushing back against the pre-Civil Rights America of 1961. These three engineers and mathematicians were crucial to America’s first space launch with John Glenn.