Most Americans never learned that there was slavery in the northern United States. Half of all slave voyages docked in tiny Rhode Island, and slave owner James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island was said to be the second...
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04 January 2017
Hidden Figures tells a fact-based story so fascinating that you wonder why it hasn’t been told until now. Of course, if it had been, they would have had to change the title.
“Hidden Figures” refers to complex mathematical...
24 December 2016
La La Land is the most exhilarating film of the year. That becomes obvious before the title credit even appears.
Opening on the scene of a backed-up Los Angeles freeway, the camera eventually settles on a woman who...
06 December 2016
As a critic, I’ve always been amused when dissenting readers ask the clichéd question, “Did we even see the same movie?” So it’s ironic to realize I’m having the same response to reviews of Manchester by the Sea.
It’s not just...
11 November 2016
If I told you Moonlight is about an African-American boy growing up in a world of drugs and poverty, you’d probably begin to form an image of the film in your mind. And that image probably would be wrong.
Director/...
24 October 2016
What happens when you want to turn a popular work of literature into cinema but it’s not long enough to serve your purposes?
In the case of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, director Peter Jackson simply padded the story out so much...
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