• November 19, 2023
• At Home, Drama

Bayard Rustin made a massive impact on modern times, as the organizer of Martin Luther King, Jr’s hugely successful March on Washington in 1963. But you might wonder why...

• October 27, 2022
• At Home, Drama

If you have any sense of U.S. history, you’ll watch Till with an impending sense of doom. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago that was lynched in...

• August 16, 2022
• Moviepie Musings

Considering how far in advance movies are made before the final edit and ultimate release to audiences, I’m sure the team behind the upcoming Call Jane are probably shocked...

• July 25, 2022
• Moviepie Musings

Emmett Till was a sweet Chicago boy with a huge smile, that went on vacation to visit his cousins in Mississippi. But the 1950s South was very different than...

• July 14, 2022
• Moviepie Musings

I’m guessing this isn’t the Hollywood return that Harvey Weinstein was hoping for! She Said stars Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey...

• October 13, 2020
• At Home, Drama

Based on Gloria Steinem’s own memoir My Life on the Road, The Glorias painstakingly covers the feminist icon’s life from her childhood in the 1940s to the Women’s March...

• January 10, 2020
• At Home, Drama

Though Just Mercy is a relatively by-the-book procedural, it is actually better than its trailer suggests, portraying a solemn lawyer promising justice for an unjustly imprisoned death row inmate....

• November 1, 2019
• At Home, Drama

In the trailer for Harriet, there is a tease of a visually arresting climactic scene showing abolitionist Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) cocking a rifle and firmly ordering, “Ready?” to...

• May 13, 2019
• At Home, Drama

Felicity Jones, in her first Big Time Starring Role, plays Ginsburg, and the film tracks her life and work from her first days at Harvard Law in 1956, where...

• April 10, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set in 1962, the film tracks the literal and figurative real-life journey of two unlikely traveling companions: hulking NYC club bouncer Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) and Don “Doc”...

• April 3, 2018
• At Home, Documentary

At one point in the documentary Dolores, about American farm workers’ labor activist Dolores Huerta, her daughter says, “We need to set the record straight! Women cannot be written...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Drama

If a trial lawyer were to have a superpower, it would be his or her power of inquisition and persuasion. To take away a lawyer’s voice in trial is...