Monthly Archives: January 2017

The weekend’s blizzard over much of the northeast made calling the movie box office race tough until late Saturday night. For a while, it looked as if “Hidden Figures,” the historic drama about African American mathematicians and the early space … Continue reading →

Veteran indie writer-director Maggie Greenwald’s best-known films — “The Ballad of Little Jo” and “Songcatcher” — are period pieces, fish-out-of-water romances. And all of her films have the refreshing novelty of being told from a female point of view. “Sophie … Continue reading →

The mischievous twinkle never quite dims in the eyes of the two guys nicknamed, for the purpose of a documentary about them,  “The Sunshine Makers.” And since the film’s about Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand, the “Orange Sunshine” manufacturers who … Continue reading →

Few have articulated America’s ongoing struggles with race better than the African-American writer and social critic James Baldwin. “We carry our history with us,” he said. He wanted to make certain we understood that. A gay man, he fled the … Continue reading →