JoJo Rabbit

JoJo Rabbit

In 1965, CBS debuted Hogan’s Heroes, a sitcom that took place in a German prisoner of war camp and, despite the fact the Germans were all portrayed as bumbling oafs and the location was a POW stalag as opposed to a concentration camp, there was a fair amount of...
Little Women (2019)

Little Women (2019)

I started my love of the story Little Women by Louisa May Alcott in 7th grade when I did an oral book report as the character of Jo, and I have been looking forward to this version of Little Women from the moment I heard that Greta Gerwig was directing and Saoirse...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars movie that made me feel like I was watching an original Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi. Failure, exile, mentor, forgiveness, hope…where have we seen this thread before? The score is loaded with Star Wars music (go...
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk tells the true story of the evacuation of the beaches at Dunkirk in northern France in 1940; several thousand British and Allied troops were trapped  there, literally in sight of England’s  coast but unable to escape due to the...
Fences

Fences

To cut right to the chase, August Wilson’s Fences, brought to the screen by director and star Denzel Washington from a screenplay written by Wilson before his death in 2005, is one of the best films of the year. The film centers around Troy Maxson (Washington),...