HILMA – Movie Review
Hilma is a sumptuous truth-based period drama that chronicles the life and work of Swedish artist Hilma aft Klint (1862 – 1944). Hilma was a brilliant and innovative artist whose abstract paintings preceded those of the better-known Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944), who has, until recently, been credited by art historians with the invention of abstract art.
Read MoreMovie Review: THE GRIZZLIES
Canadian filmmaker Miranda de Pencier’s The Grizzlies, a truth-based sports narrative set in the Canadian arctic, is a story centered around the experiences of a recently graduated White teacher, Russ, working his first job as a high school history teacher in the isolated Inuit town of Kuluktuk, where the hardships of life far exceed its joys.
Read MoreMovie Review: MR. JONES
Agnieszka Holland’s Mr. Jones is not only an engaging and timely history lesson about the Soviet sanctioned Holodomor in Ukraine, it is also compelling reminder of the crucially important role that a legitimate, accurate and accountable free press plays in monitoring and mitigating events that impact the world’s well being.
Read MoreOFFICIAL SECRETS – Movie Review
If you like spy scenarios and courtroom dramas, and are interested in sorting out truthful reporting from fake news, Official Secrets, a truth-based narrative about English security whistleblower Katherine Gun, will surely satisfy. It’s entertaining and informative, and its release is quite timely.
Read MoreKIMBERLY PEIRCE on Directing Truth-Based STOP LOSS
Kimberly Peirce’s film, Stop Loss (2008), delves into an egregious and little known policy currently affecting military personnel and their families. Soldiers who’ve completed tours of duty in Iraq are being sent back to the war zone for second and third tours, even if they don’t want to go. The practice, known as stop loss or the ‘back door draft’ prevents servicemen and women from retiring once their required term of service is complete and it is based upon a small print contract clause that’s been invoked by the current administration as a way to keep deployed troop numbers high when enlistment in the volunteer army is decreasing.
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