Year: 2017

In a totalitarian state like North Korea, virtually every aspect of life of virtually every citizen is rigidly controlled. So how does one preserve one’s sense of self? Find out by reading “‘Under the Sun’ chronicles the challenges of self-preservation,” my latest film review post on the web site of Smart Women’s Empowerment, available by clicking here ...

Tune in for the premiere edition of The Cinema Scribe segment on Bring Me 2 Life Radio, Wednesday August 2 at 12:30 pm ET, available by clicking here ...

Reviews of “Detroit” and “Remember” and details about a new social media page are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post on the web site of The Good Radio Network, available by clicking here ...

Join host Frankie Picasso and me today, Thursday July 27, at 1 pm ET for the next Movies with Meaning segment on Frankiesense & More radio. We’ll talk about several current film releases and other movie news. Tune in live or listen to the on-demand podcast by clicking here ...

“Dunkirk” (2017). Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, Barry Keoghan, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jochum ten Haaf. Web site. Trailers. The horror of war is difficult to fathom by anyone who hasn’t lived through it, though movies have made earnest attempts to capture it, documenting what is, arguably, mankind at its worst. But imagine what it might be like if a film set during wartime were to take on the challenge of depicting humanity at its best under those same conditions. If you can envision that, then you have an idea of what transpires in director Christopher Nolan’s new World War II epic, “Dunkirk.” In an attempt to stave off an aggressive German military advancing across Europe in 1940, British, French, Belgian and Canadian troops launched an assault on northern France involving 400,000 soldiers. Unfortunately, the effort proved to be a massive miscalculation, a strategic error that became all too apparent when Allied forces suddenly found themselves surrounded by the enemy. Based on orders from Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the military’s top brass (Kenneth Branagh, James D’Arcy) began organizing an evacuation to bring the troops home to Britain, with the soldiers ...

Reviews of “Dunkirk,” “Under the Sun” and “Snowden,” as well as a radio show preview, are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post on the web site of The Good Radio Network, available by clicking here ...