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By Anne Brodie Happy Place based on Pamela Mala Sinha’s play about women in a care facility suffering from trauma. Each one attempted suicide. As dark as it sounds, and as realistic as director Helen Shaver envisioned the film, these are strong women seeking relief from the pain who must finds …
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By Anne Brodie Do you remember the old days when the US had Presidents of empathy and dignity, people we could look up to? Remember Jimmy Carter (1977 – 1981) who at 96, is still building houses with his wife for Habitat for Humanity as he’s done for the last forty years? He was a gentle, …
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s hard to describe the second film from Borat, the Kazakh TV personality who graced us with his big-screen presence fourteen years ago but trust me, its pure …
Director Lydia Dean Pilcher and writer Ginny Mohler’s film Radium Girls starring Joey King and Abby Quinn is based on the true story of sisters in 1928 New Jersey who blew the whistle on a shocking case of industrial poisoning. 4,000 young women in the U.S. and Canada worked as clock painters using …
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By Anne Brodie Totally Under Control one of the year’s most powerful documentaries shot in secret for five months, puts the Trump response to the COVID crisis under the microscope. Day by day month by month the case is built - an indisputable picture of his monstrous apathy. Revered …
