Thursday, December 19, 2024

Tag: Biography

Ammonite (2020)

Title: Ammonite
Rating: R
Directed by: Francis Lee
Written by: Francis Lee
Starring: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan
Release Date: 11/13/2020
Running Time: 120 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No


This Is Not a Movie (2019)?

Title: This Is Not a Movie
Rating: NR
Directed by: Yung Chang
Written by: Yung Chang and Nelofer Pazira
Starring: Robert Fisk, Amira Hass, and Nirmeen Hazineh
Release Date: 4/18/2020
Running Time: 106 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Director Yung Chang captures Fisk in relentless action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Unknown

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Are There Any Extras After The Credits? Unknown

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Call to Spy, A (2019)

Title: A Call to Spy
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Written by: Sarah Megan Thomas
Starring: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, and Rossif Sutherland
Release Date: 10/2/2020
Running Time: 123 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill hastily orders his new spy agency — Special Operations Executive (SOE) — to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. SOE’s “spymistress,” Vera Atkins (Stana Katic), recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Atpe), a Muslim pacifist. Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No


Son of the South (2020)?

Title: Son of the South
Rating: NR
Directed by: Barry Alexander Brown
Written by: Barry Alexander Brown
Based on the autobiography of: Bob Zellner
Starring: Lucas Till, Lucy Hale, Cedric the Entertainer, and Brian Dennehy
Release Date: 8/26/2020
Running Time: 105 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Unknown

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I Am Woman (2019)

Title: I Am Woman
Rating: NR
Directed by: Unjoo Moon
Written by: Emma Jensen
Starring: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Danielle Macdonald, and Evan Peters
Release Date: 9/11/2020
Running Time: 116 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

The story of 1970s musician and activist Helen Reddy.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No


Tesla (2020)

Title: Tesla
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Michael Almereyda
Written by: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Lucy Walters, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Hamilton, Blake DeLong, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Hannah Gross, Donnie Keshawarz, Rebecca Dayan, and Lois Smith
Release Date: 8/21/2020
Running Time: 102 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Memoriam: In Memory of Sam Shepard

Special thanks to Frank for this submission


Elephant (2020)*

Title: Elephant
Rating: G
Directed by: Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz
Starring: Meghan Markle
Release Date: 4/3/2020
Running Time: 86 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo set out on an epic journey with their herd, traveling hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert from the Okavango delta to the Zambezi River. Led by their great matriarch, Gaia, the family faces brutal heat, dwindling resources and persistent predators, as they follow in the footsteps of their ancestors on a quest to reach paradise.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

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Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? NoYes (No Ratings Yet)
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Special thanks to Frank for this submission


My Name Is Sara (2019)

Title: My Name Is Sara
Rating: NR
Directed by: Steven Oritt
Written by: David Himmelstein
Starring: Zuzanna Surowy, Michalina Olszanska, Eryk Lubos, Konrad Cichon, and Pawel Królikowski
Release Date: 2/27/2020
Running Time: 111 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

In June of 1941, Sara Góralnik was just 11 years old when the German Army invaded her hometown of Korets, in present-day Ukraine. Prior to the war, Korets was part of an independent Poland which encompassed the eastern territory of Ukraine, home to a thriving Jewish community whose history in the region goes back over 1,000 years. There, Jews forged a burgeoning merchant-class that in some of the provinces such as Volyn, where Korets sits, comprised as much as two-thirds of the local population.

At the time, eastern Poland was a true melting pot where Jews, Polish Catholics and Ukrainian Eastern Orthodox Christians cohabitated in relative peace for centuries. Jews were the commercial backbone of the area and flourished as tradesmen; the local Ukrainian farmers however, did not fare as well. Poorly educated, oppressed by the Polish nobility and starved by the Soviets during the great famine of the 1930’s, Ukrainians suffered greatly for decades, an agony that cultivated a deep resentment towards the upwardly mobile Jewish population. By the time the Nazis invaded in 1941, many Ukrainians greeted their German liberators with open arms and welcomed a cleansing of their Jewish neighbors from the region.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission


King, The (2019)

Title: The King
Rating: R
Directed by: David Michôd
Written by: Joel Edgerton and David Michôd
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, and Tom Fisher
Release Date: 11/1/2019
Running Time: 140 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Gabe for this submission


Resistance (2020)

Title: Resistance
Rating: R
Directed by: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Written by: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, and Edgar Ramírez
Release Date: 3/27/2020
Running Time: 120 minutes

IMDb

What did you think of this film?

The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Dedication: The film is dedicated to the children killed by the Nazis during World War II.

Special thanks to Frank for this submission