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October 9, 2016
Rad Women Worldwide: A Book About Women Who Challenged Injustice, Solved Problems, and Created Art That Inspires
The author and illustrator behind the terrific Rad American Women A-Z have a terrific new book featuring women from around the world. Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl have selected a fabulous collection of women who challenged injustice, solved problems, and created art that inspires. They range from sea captain Grace "Granuaile" O'Malley to...
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Television Makes Comedies About…Death?
An article in The Verge discusses two television comedies about, well, death. I'm a fan of "The Good Place," with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in the story of a young woman who mistakenly ends up in heaven. It has some complex and thoughtful things to say about life, death, the afterlife, and the overall existential questions of purpose and meaning. One of the characters is...
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MetroWeekly Interviews Jeffrey Tambor about “Transparent”
Actor Jeffrey Tambor calls his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning role on "Transparent" "the role of a lifetime — and the responsibility of a lifetime." He plays Maura, a transgender woman in her 60's.
My friend Randy Shulman interviewed Tambor for Washington DC's Metro Weekly and their conversation is fascinating.
I’ll be very blunt, I think it’s made me a better...
My friend Randy Shulman interviewed Tambor for Washington DC's Metro Weekly and their conversation is fascinating.
I’ll be very blunt, I think it’s made me a better...
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October 8, 2016
Interview: The Podcast “The Cave of Wonders”
Jerry Roberts and Doug Heller are hosting a new podcast called "The Cave of Wonders," a loving tribute to the special magic of Disney films. Episode one "looks into the tao of Disney and what it means to us and to our culture. Then, a discussion of Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White...
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October 7, 2016
Exclusive Clip: Breaking a Monster
Bonding over their love of music, three grade schoolers from Brooklyn spend their weekends playing heavy metal/speed punk in Times Square as “Unlocking the Truth." When the band's internet fame explodes and the music industry comes calling, Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse, and Jarad Dawkins feel like anything is possible, but are soon confronted with the realities that come with being rockstars. Breaking a...
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October 6, 2016
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
This just might be the most accurate movie title of all time. Middle school is pretty much the worst years of everyone's life. Terrible stress and tragedy happens at all ages, but it is the years from 12 to 14 where the internal turmoil and agonizing uncertainty are so acute that we still wince remembering them decades later. This film, based on the series of books by mega-bestselling author James Patterson (with Chris Tebbetts and illustrations by Laura...
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The Birth of a Nation
Nat Turner was an enslaved man in early 19th century Virginia who led other enslaved people in a rebellion against slaveholders thirty years before the Civil War. It led to the deaths of more than 50 white people and more than 200 black people.
For actor Nate Parker, Turner's story has been a long-time passion project, and he has audaciously claimed, or reclaimed the title of the D.W. Griffith silent film as revered for its innovations in cinematic storytelling as it is reviled for its...
For actor Nate Parker, Turner's story has been a long-time passion project, and he has audaciously claimed, or reclaimed the title of the D.W. Griffith silent film as revered for its innovations in cinematic storytelling as it is reviled for its...
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Denial
You can refuse. You can disagree. You can object. You can argue. But none of those words is as charged as "denial," with its multiple uses all implying injustice, unfairness, even bullying. The title of this film establishes immediately that the courtroom and media battle it depicts is not one of popularity, reputation, or consensus. It is about the core issue of proof -- how we know what we know, and, in this case, what that means as we approach the time when everyone with a memory of the...
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October 5, 2016
Interview: Father Joseph of Haiti on His New Documentary
"Father Joseph" is an inspiring new documentary from Floating World Pictures about a priest in Haiti who has helped Fondwa, one of the poorest communities in the world, to develop schools, a radio station, and a bank and to build homes to make micro-loans to support the local economy. Almost all of it was wiped out by the devastating earthquake of 2010. And so, he is starting all over again, working with the
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October 4, 2016
Contest: Win LEGO Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood for Halloween!
Bring LEGO Scooby-Doo home for Halloween!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1Jx...
Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood is set in a LEGO world. the Scooby gang try to rescue an old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers who want to tear it down, but by a series of movie monsters, which are suddenly haunting the place.
I have a copy to give away! Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Scooby in the subject line and tell me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1Jx...
Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood is set in a LEGO world. the Scooby gang try to rescue an old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers who want to tear it down, but by a series of movie monsters, which are suddenly haunting the place.
I have a copy to give away! Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Scooby in the subject line and tell me...
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