Unhealed Wound – Page 16

“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...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A BOLO for Justice

Written by diana on December 17, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A BOLO for Justice

Guest blogger extraordinaire Bill Clark Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s film, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), takes us along Mildred Hayes’ journey as she deals with the unsolved murder-rape of her teenage daughter. Brilliantly played by Frances McDormand, bereaved mother, Mildred, decides to take on the avuncular police...

The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

Written by diana on December 12, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

In Sophia Coppola’s reinterpretation of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film by the same name, The Beguiled opens with an eleven-year-old girl gathering mushrooms in her straw basket deep in a quiet wood in Virginia. Conjuring an image of Little Red Riding Hood soon coming upon a big bad wolf, we see her discover the wounded John McBurney...

Mudbound–Mired in the Mississippi Delta

Written by diana on November 27, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Mudbound–Mired in the Mississippi Delta

Set in the Deep South in1939 and then fast-forwarding to World War II, Mudbound is an epic of two families–one white (McAllan) and one black (Jackson)–who are severely constrained by the Jim Crow laws and customs in Alabama. The two McAllan brothers, Henry and Jamie, epitomize Cain and Abel. The Jacksons are sharecroppers...

The Florida Project: Finding the Magic Kingdom

Written by diana on November 7, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on The Florida Project: Finding the Magic Kingdom

[Another great review by guest blogger: Bill Clark, award-winning photographer, printmaker, writer, political activist and proud grandfather of four wonderful grandchildren. See his first review: “Faces Places–A Journey of the Heart”, October 23, 2017] My six-year-old granddaughter’s first e-mail complained that her...

“The Salt of the Earth” (2014) –Drawing with Light

Written by diana on August 13, 2017. Posted in Art, movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Iguana Marina Sebastiao Salgado, the renowned Brazilian sociopolitical photographer, is the subject of this emotionally harrowing documentary. The viewer witnesses photographs of heartbreaking gravity and human agony, both unprecedented and breathtaking. The 2014 Academy Award nominated The Salt of the Earth reveals Salgado’s masterpieces...