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My Top 17 Movies and Series for 2024

This year I have seventeen films and series to recommend.  Some are less well-known and under-the-radar.  Also, there seemed to be more selections from DEI producers and writers, for a welcomed change! Here are the reviews I wrote this past year with the criteria that they were available online.  Of the 45 reviews I posted this year, these are my favorites, my “listicle”.  As in past years, both television and cinema have continued to produce phenomenal story-telling and intriguing characters. And this year many of the indie/foreign films could...

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Lawman: Bass Reeves–A Truthful  Western

This true untold story about the first Black  US Marshall highlights Lawman Bass Reeves responsibilities for law enforcement in the Oklahoma Territories including Native lands.  One of the most legendary lawmen in the Old West, Lawman: Bass Reeves (David Oyelowo) opens with  Reeves heroically fighting in the Confederate army alongside his Texas slave owner on the eve of Reconstruction.  Despite  brutal circumstances and the lawlessness of racists and prairie vigilantes, Reeves struggles to be  a man with integrity in the face of immoral institutions.  Crisis after...

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