Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) must leave her beloved sister Rose (Fiona Glascott), and mother, Mary (Jane Brennan), behind on ‘The Emerald Isle’ to come to America for a chance at a better life sponsored by her mentor, Father Flood (Jim Broadbent). She will arrive with a job and a dream is in her smiling Irish […]
The Tudors: The Series
This is a dramatization and this is elegant popular entertainment. As an armchair historian, in love with the stories of Henry VIII, I find it absolutely gripping. The acting is for the most part marvelous, and the idea of doing these great personages as compellingly attractive people is a brilliant one. There is plenty enough […]
Transparent: The Series
The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that father Mort (Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender and wishes to be referred to as “Maura.” Transparent has a strong message: for gender freedom for all, and within that freedom we can find grays and muddled purples and pinks, chakras that bridge […]
Promised Land
Steve Butler (Matt Damon), an ambitious salesperson for a natural gas corporation, has no doubt his persuasive skills will convince a small Pennsylvania town to allow hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in their backyards. But when an environmental activist Dustin (John Krasinski) tries to stop Butler’s efforts and woos a local teacher Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt) that […]
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