Year: 2022

Looking for some great new movies? Catch five recommendations on the latest edition of The Good Media Network’s Frankiesense & More video podcast featuring special guest host Ishita Sharma and yours truly. Tune in for a fun and lively discussion of five new films well worth your time! Check it out by clicking here. Additional postings to YouTube and LinkedIn to follow soon! ...

Join new guest host Ishita Sharma and yours truly for a double dose of movie review shows on The Good Media Network’s Frankiesense & More video podcast in March! The first, on Thursday March 3, will feature reviews of five new movies, and the second, on Thursday March 24, will feature new movie reviews and my Oscar predictions in the top six categories. Tune in on Facebook or YouTube for all the fun and lively discussion! ...

Reviews of “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” “Mass” and “Strawberry Mansion,” as well as a video podcast preview, are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post of The Good Media Network web site, available by clicking here ...

“Strawberry Mansion” (2020 production, 2022 release). Cast: Kentucker Audley, Reed Birney, Penny Fuller, Linas Phillips, Grace Glowicki, Constance Shulman, Ephraim Birney, Albert Birney. Directors: Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. Screenplay: Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. Web site. Trailer. Dreams carry tremendous power. They give us hope, inspiration and motivation to achieve lofty goals, aspirations that have become synonymous with the word “dream” itself. But there’s even more to them than that; their power, backed by the beliefs that drive them, can impact our existence in unimaginable ways, enabling possibilities we may have never envisioned. Getting to that realization may take some doing, though, especially when it comes, ironically enough, to “awakening,” an odyssey insightfully depicted in the new sci-fi fantasy, “Strawberry Mansion.” Have you ever been on an email or social media web site where you’ve found advertising in the margins or newsfeed that, remarkably, just happens to match what you’ve just been thinking or talking about? Some find it uncanny, while others find it creepy and intrusive. But imagine what it might be like if that highly synchronistic concept could be taken a step further, with promotional messages for products that you have an immediate need or desire for ...

“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” (2019 production, 2021 release). Cast: Sherab Dorji, Ugyun Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Kunzang Wangdi, Tshering Dorji, Tsheri Zom, Sonam Tashi, Tandin Sonam, Dophu, Pem Zam, Dorji Om. Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji. Screenplay: Pawo Choyning Dorji. Web site. Trailer. If life were to remain stagnant, we’d probably become bored, disillusioned or unfulfilled by the stunning lack of change. That’s especially true for those of us who aspire to something more, to be able to freely express ourselves, regardless of the milieu through which we do so. However, if we’re to realize that objective, we need to make the effort to evolve. But, in attempting to implement that process, we sometimes find that evolution takes on forms that we don’t expect yet nevertheless leave us wholly and pleasantly transformed, providing us with what we need to make that progression possible. So it is for a weary young man looking to steer his life in a new direction in the charming comedy-drama, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.” Ugyen Dorji (Sherab Dorji) is dissatisfied with his life. As a teacher in the fourth year of a five-year Bhutanese government contract, he’s bored with his work, and ...

Tune in for the latest Cinema Scribe segment on Bring Me 2 Life Radio, Tuesday, February 22, at 2 pm ET, available by clicking here. And, if you don’t hear the show live, catch it later on demand on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podchaser and Jiosaavn ...