Tag: Susan Sarandon

Six Triple Eight—Hidden Figures?

Written by Diana Paul on February 16, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Six Triple Eight—Hidden Figures?

Based on journalist Kevin M. Hymel’s 2019 article “Fighting a Two-Front War,” Six Triple Eight follows the inspiring story of 855 women who overcame immense barriers to sort over seventeen million pieces of backlogged mail. Sorting the mail became a priority to boost morale by ensuring soldiers stayed connected with loved ones. Their...

“Blackbird” (2019)–The Final Flight

Written by Diana Paul on November 15, 2021. Posted in movie reviews.

In this timely and sensitive film, three generations get together for Christmas dinner–instead of Thanksgiving, even though it actually is Thanksgiving. As often happens in real-life family gatherings as well as in Blackbird, there will be dysfunction, a farrago scattered within warm laughter about shared memories and...

“Arbitrage” —Power is the Best Alibi

Written by diana on September 29, 2012. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Arbitrage” —Power is the Best Alibi

The early scenes of Arbitrage have some of the same high-finance vertigo of Margin Call or Bonfire of the Vanities. But here we have an overlay of another crime superimposed on financial fraud and wonder what, if any, consequences will follow. In this implosive thriller Richard Gere plays investment mogul Robert Miller, the...

Tag: Susan Sarandon

Six Triple Eight—Hidden Figures?

“Blackbird” (2019)–The Final Flight

“Arbitrage” —Power is the Best Alibi

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