Would you seek employment in a foreign conflict zone if the money was enough to pay off your college loans and keep your family prospering back in the U.S., even though you would be jeopardizing your own safety?
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Movie Review: ‘(T)ERROR,’ Sundance Film Festival (2015) Candescent Award Winner
When documentarians Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe secretly filmed Saeed working as a paid informant in an on the ground FBI sting operation, never did they imagine their filming would lead where it did.
Read More »Hamptons Film Festival: ‘The Lady in the Van’ Starring Dame Maggie Smith
Miss Shepherd arrives at writer Alan Bennett's curbside in her ramshackle van. With ungracious and manipulative presumption, she wins a place in his heart and a choice spot in his driveway.
Read More »Film Legend Mary Pickford and Sara Gavron’s ‘Suffragette’
“We break windows. We burn things. Because war is the only language men listen to,” Maud says in Suffragette, now playing in theaters across the U.S. Director Sara Gavron said, “Working (class) women often are the vanguard of change, and they’re often not recognized for that.” Another woman not recognized …
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Hallow,’ Irish Horror Directed by Corin Hardy
Hardy's feature debut is short on plot development but long on style and creepy atmosphere.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Miles Ahead’ Starring Don Cheadle
Miles Davis is a legend whose life and music evokes anything but the tame and ordinary. Cheadle's film does Davis complete justice.
Read More »NYC and Hamptons Film Fest Review: ‘Carol’ with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara
Opening at the NY and Hamptons Film Festivals, "Carol," starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett shows that sometimes forbidden love is the most electric and entrancing of all.
Read More »NYFF and Hamptons Film Festivals Review: ‘Son of Saul’
Only when we stand in another's shoes can we see from their perspective and begin to understand our own humanity. especially if its a Sonderkommando of Auschwitz.
Read More »NYC and Hamptons Film Fest Review: Michael Moore’s ‘Where to Invade Next’
Michael Moore's European invasion brings back the spoils of peace, equity and humanity reflected in some of the best practices and programs that Europe has to offer.
Read More »Hamptons International Film Festival Review: ‘Indian Point’
Indian Point is a nuclear power plant which is 50-years-old and is 35 miles from Manhattan. It's operating license expired in 2013 amidst contentions which must be resolved before renewal. Activists are demanding its closure.
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