All posts tagged "history"
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GOLDA – Review
Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first women prime minister, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in GOLDA....
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OPPENHEIMER – Review
“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” is the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita that...
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TURN EVERY PAGE – Review
What a delightful documentary is TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB. This...
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OPERATION MINCEMEAT – Review
“Truth is stranger than fiction” stories are often the best, and the true story behind the British WWII...
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THE KING’S MAN – Review
So, here’s a bit of a “flip”. This pre-holiday Wednesday sees the release of two sequels, SING 2...
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THE EMPEROR’S SWORD – Review
THE EMPEROR’S SWORD is a Chinese period action drama opening with a huge battle that results in China...
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THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN – Review
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a charming, bittersweet true story of an eccentric late-Victorian British artist whose whimsical drawings...
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THE HUMAN FACTOR – Review
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable the world has seen. THE HUMAN FACTOR focuses on...
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THE GLORIAS – Review
Three big names of the ’60s -’70s Second Wave feminism were Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,”...
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MR JONES – Review
In the early ’30s, a young Welsh journalist named Jones uncovers a secret famine in Stalin’s Soviet Union,...
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THE TWO POPES – Review
Jonathan Pryce as the future Pope Francis I and Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI are pure delight...
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THE REPORT – Review
In this tense, gripping true story drama, Adam Driver plays a FBI agent who relentless pursues the truth...
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NEVER LOOK AWAY – Review
Art and history meld in the Oscar-nominated NEVER LOOK AWAY, a German-language epic tale that begins in 1937...
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS – Review
Of the two historical films opening this week, this is the one with grand, epic drama. Saoirse...
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THE FAVOURITE – Review
Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone face off as rivals for the queen’s favor, in the hilarious dark historic...
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1945 – Review
Hungarian director Ferenc Torok’s haunting, visually striking black-and-white drama 1945 takes place in a small Hungarian village shortly...
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DARKEST HOUR – Review
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright DARKEST HOUR, a riveting drama...
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DETROIT – Review
In DETROIT, director Kathryn Bigelow spotlights the civil unrest that shook Detroit in the summer of 1967, and...
