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THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT – Review by Susan Granger

December 31, 2024January 5, 2025 Susan Granger Ebony Obsidian, kerry washington, oprah winfrey, susan sarandon, The Six Triple Eight, truth-based, tyler perry, WACs, Women’s Army Corps, world war II

Like Hidden Figures, the 2016 film that heralded unsung Black female NASA mathematicians, The Six Triple Eight tells the true story of first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War II. Led by 26 year-old Major Charity Adams (Kerry Washington), their mission was not only important but seemingly impossible: the 855 Black women were given just six months to sift through 17 million pieces of undelivered letters – to soldiers and from them – which had been dumped in canvas bags stored in numerous airplane hangars in Glasgow, Scotland. “No mail, low morale” was their mantra.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Lauren Anderson

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022 Lauren Anderson (Archived Contributor) adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Don’t Look Up is a whirlwind of a movie. The Adam McKay film follows Kate Dibiasky and Dr. Mindy, two astronomers, who find themselves at the center a media frenzy while they’re attempting to warn mankind of a massive comet that’s hurtling towards Earth. While the narrative of this movie is intended to be humorous, it’s also eerily reflective of the way humanity could react if something like this were actually to happen.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Susan Granger

December 16, 2021December 19, 2021 Susan Granger adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Such curious timing! The same week that NASA launched DART (Double Astroid Redirection Test), a $330 million spacecraft to ‘nudge’ the asteroid Dimorphos off -course, this star-studded cautionary satire hit the big screens.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Martha K Baker

December 9, 2021December 12, 2021 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

The title is ironic. The idea is to look up. Up there, a comet is coming this way, and it will destroy the Earth and its denizens. That’s the prediction of two astronomers, Dr. Randall Mindy and his colleague, Kate Dibiasky, still earning her doctorate (an academic point made clear in every introduction). They are Spartans at Michigan State University. Read: low-level. Read: Midwest. Which is why the President herself decrees: “Let’s get some Ivy Leaguers in here.”

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, Sept. 29-Oct. 3: GONE GIRL

September 29, 2014October 11, 2014 Nikki Baughan 0 Comments ben affleck, David Clennon, david fincher, jennifer merin, leba hertz, Neil Patrick Harris, nell minow, Rosamund Pike, Sandra Kraisirideja, tyler perry

Opening Oct. 3, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Gone Girl, David Fincher’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling page turner. Flynn has also written the screenplay, which sees Ben Affleck as an adoring husband who must fight to prove his innocence when his wife (Rosamund Pike) disappears. A stylish, intriguing thriller where nothing is as it seems…Read on…

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