CINEMA MOVIES

May 07, 2017 — Daje Shelton aka Boonie (pronounced Boney) is a very smart young girl who occasionally is getting into trouble. When yet another fight sends her before a judge she is given a choice, go to a special …

November 13, 2016 — Portrait of Gertrude Bell who was a leading authority on the Middle East during the early part of the 20th century. She was one of the people involved in the redrawing of the lines of the various cou…

November 13, 2016 — Portrait of a director Damani Baker's family which his activist mother moved to Grenada in 1983 right after the country had an Afrocentric revolution and months before the US military invaded. In…

November 12, 2016 — This portrait of photographer Rose Hartman who has taken numerous iconic photographs over the last four decades is a beautiful celebration of a woman and her photographs. Rose has created a body of w…

July 04, 2016 — Image Source Movie :  "Born on the Fourth of July" Year Nominated : 1990 Director : Oliver Stone Rating : R Running Time : 2 hours, 25 minutes Did It Win? : No. The life story of Ron Kovik …

July 01, 2016 — Movie :  "Free State of Jones" Director : Gary Ross Rating : R Running Time : 2 hours, 19 minutes Image Source Tired of risking his life so plantation owners can maintain their profits, a …

April 26, 2016 — Centered on the lives of the male dancers who toured with Madonna on her Blonde Ambition tour back in 1990, STRIKE A POSE attempts to look at what happened when the tour ended. Sadly the film is poor…

April 25, 2016 — I had stumbled upon PACKED IN A TRUNK when it ran several months ago on HBO. I happened to just turn on the station a couple of minutes in and saw that it was a film about art and I fell into it. Thi…

April 24, 2016 — This portrait of the artist Maurizio Cattelan is one of my favorite films at Tribeca. A glorious look at the man and his work that kind of turns the tables on the audience even though we should know …

April 24, 2016 — The long in production film has been kicking around as behind the scenes troubles made it miss it's original release date by two years. It finally made it's world premiere last night and stra…

April 24, 2016 — EVERYBODY KNOWS ELIZABETH MURRAY Hour long biography of the painter is a nice over view of her life and work. More a warm remembrance then detailed look the film uses interviews with friends mixed wi…

April 23, 2016 — I remember reading about Owen Suskind a year or two ago online and being touched by his story. When I found out they turned his life into a documentary that was premiering at Tribeca Film Festival, …