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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!

Late Night–Women Do It Right

Written by diana on November 25, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on Late Night–Women Do It Right

Late Night movie In Late Night we see a notoriously, male-dominated world of late-night network TV in which a woman–Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson)– is the host of her own talk show. (Think “The Devil Wears Prada” and Meryl Streep as the “bitch-boss from...

Tricky Dick–His Own Fantasy World

Written by diana on October 30, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Tricky Dick–His Own Fantasy World

Narrated by Anderson Cooper, Tricky Dick is a four-part CNN documentary that presents the lesser-known story of Richard Nixon’s life and times. The rise, fall and almost unbelievable comeback and final self-sabotage of his political career are adroitly deconstructed. Through access to archival footage never before seen by the...

Queen of the South (La Reina del Sur)–Reigning Supreme

Written by diana on October 20, 2019. Posted in Television reviews.

Based on the global best-selling novel “La Reina Del Sur,” by internationally-acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen of the South, a bilingual telenovela crime drama, has become one of the most popular series of all time for USA and its sister network, Telemundo. Queen of the South, now in its fifth season, is a...

Joker–No Laughing Matter

Written by diana on October 7, 2019. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments on Joker–No Laughing Matter

Joker is a devastating portrait of a rapid descent into mental illness. This Joker, nemesis to the comic book masked superhero Batman, takes center stage with only a tangential reference to Batman and for good reason. Now we see the masked Joker as few could have imagined. And it is no small feat to have a...

Infamy–The Terror (Season 2)

Written by diana on September 24, 2019. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Infamy–The Terror (Season 2)

The Terror: Infamy is the second and current season (ten episodes) of AMC’s historical drama/horror series. Infamy takes a dark and infamous chapter in US history and attempts to give this shameful period both a humanizing and ghostly touch. The often overlooked or little-known story of Japanese American...