4 Powerful Documentaries to Stream During MLK Weekend
It’s MLK Weekend, which means a lot of folks get to enjoy a three-day weekend. If you are using this time to get in more streaming, make sure to add some of these documentaries that …
Category: Film
The Godfather Movie Review
The Godfather Synopsis: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. ***Flawless I can tell that I had little to no complaints about this film because …
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Book + Movie Review
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Summary: Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before …
The Girl on the Train: Book Versus Movie
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning and has started to feel like she knows one of the people who live in one of the houses …
The Devil Wears Prada Movie Review
The Devil Wears Prada Synopsis: A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. Warning: This movie review contains spoilers. With Friends …
Memoirs of a Geisha Book + Movie Review
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Summary: At the age of nine, Chiyo Sakamoto is taken from her home and sold to an okiya in Gion, Kyoto’s most prominent geisha district. She enters a world …
The Gentlemen Movie Review
Title: The Gentlemen Synopsis: American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, …
Uncut Gems Movie Review
Title: Uncut Gems Synopsis: A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides …
Top 5 Movies of 2019
Although I am a movie fan, I am not a professional film critic. Therefore, I only go to the theater to see movies I want to see. The price of a movie ticket is too …
A Wrinkle in Time Book + Movie Review
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Summary: On a dark and stormy night, Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and their mother receive an unexpected visit by a disturbing stranger. Meg’s father mysteriously disappeared …