NR | 1h 20min | Documentary, History, Biography | 14 October (USA) Born in 1922 in the Manassas section of Memphis, Tennessee, and dying in the same city in 2007, Ernest Withers led as full of a life as anyone could possibly want or expect. He achieved national and international notoriety as a significant photojournalist. Withers was a go-getter and a…
Film Review: ‘The Picture Taker’: The Secret Double Life of a Civil Rights Photographer
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Hope and Glory’: A Googly of a Film
PG-13 | 1h 53min | Drama, Comedy | 1987 If you’re familiar with cricket, you’ll have some inkling of the “googly,” a delivery that bowlers (in baseball, the pitcher) use to deceive batsmen (batters) by pretending to spin the ball one way, while spinning it the other. British screenwriter-director John Boorman’s “Hope and Glory” is…
Loyalty, Flair, and Polish Patriotism: ‘Meeting’ Count Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
WARSAW, Poland—I saw him as soon as I entered The White Hall of Wilanow Palace. On the far side of the room, a confident nobleman casually dressed in a white shirt, a velvet vest, leather trousers, and a blue sash, with a kind face and an open, approachable manner, sat astride his horse. He had…
Return to Happiness | Documentary
October 18, 2022
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A life-transforming journey of a pro hockey player who, after having been imprisoned for dealing drugs and losing the things and people he loved most, seeks a return to happiness and redemption via a humanitarian journey into South East Asia. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…
Film Review: ‘Stars at Noon’: A Star Rises for Andie MacDowell’s Daughter
R | 2h 15m | Mystery, Thriller | October 14, 2022 Trish Johnson (Margaret Qualley, daughter of actress-model Andie MacDowell of “Groundhog Day”) is an American journalist stuck in Nicaragua, having had her press credentials and passport yanked by the local authorities. She’s been reduced to begging for freelance travelogue-type journalism work, with a side-line of prostitution. She’d…
Rewind, Review, and ReRate: ‘The World in His Arms’: A Highly Entertaining Swashbuckler
Approved | 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, History | 1952 Over the years, I’ve become a big fan of Gregory Peck’s work. He’s a very versatile actor that I’ve always associated with dramatic character-driven film roles, such as the gentlemanly out-of-towner James McKay in the magnificent Western “The Big Country (1958),” or the brooding bad…
Block the Sun, Move the Planets, Save the World!
In the last few years we have had at least three amazing, mind-boggling concepts from the super-rich and super-powerful elites who, though unelected, seem to have extraordinary influence over governments, academic institutions, and the working lives of ordinary people. In no particular order these three ideas are: One, that we can go to Mars and…
The Divine Plan | Documentary
October 17, 2022
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This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. When assassination attempts were made on both Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan, the two influential leaders came together to defeat communism. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” –…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Dig’: Our Past Can Speak to Our Future, If Only We Preserve It
PG-13 | 1h 52min | Historical Drama | 2021 In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, stood at its door. After a prolonged excavation, or “dig,” in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Carter was the first human in some 3,000 years to set foot there. In typical British understatement,…
Finding and Belonging: Edward Everett Hale’s Short Story, ‘The Man Without a Country’
Belonging to a country instills for us a sense of identity, and it is a terrible thing to lose, as Phillip Nolan found out. In his short story, “The Man Without a Country,” Edward Everett Hale follows Nolan, a lieutenant in the United States Army, who loses his homeland through his pride, arrogance, and inordinate…
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