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The struggle for equal rights for all has been, and in many ways, continues to be, a hard fought battle. Directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame) Suffragette vividly recreates the significant sacrifices made
Fascinating yet depressing, the second season of HBO’s The Leftovers even better than the first. As watchers of the series know, season one focuses on life in Mapleton, New York, in the aftermath of the Sudden Departure, an event in
It’s long been established that the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a controlling, egomaniacal bully. Nonetheless, the man who urged the world to “Think different” and introduced the iMac, the iPod and the iPad was one of the most
In 1957, Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested in New York. Though the trial itself is for little more than show, the government wants it known that he was granted a fair legal defense. To that end, Former
Exciting, sexy and voyeuristic, 1949’s Bitter Rice (aka Risa Amoro) was a clear move away from the neorealism movement in post war Italy. Just 32 when the film was released, director Giuseppe De Santis gave viewers something to thinking about,
Given that N.W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are producers of the film about the group that made them superstars, it’s no surprise that Straight Outta Compton cleans up their story a bit for public consumption. Even so, Compton
Following the success of Tony Rome, Frank Sinatra returned to the role of hard boiled investigator with The Detective. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp, The Detective is far more serious and adult in
Dysfunction, dysfunction, dysfunction. To hell with television’s original model of the Ozzie and Harriet clean cut, nuclear family. Showtime’s Shameless has happily put a spotlight on the “worst” kind of parent America has to offer. Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy),
Visually stunning and undeniably entertaining, The Walk tells the true story of Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a French street performer who, in 1973, saw a newspaper article about the building of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and
Based on the popular semi-autobiographical 2004 novel by Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem is yet another beautiful film from director Jean-Jacques Annaud, but unlike his previous efforts such as Quest for Fire, Two Brothers and The Bear, Wolf Totem aims for