Daily Archives: August 21, 2021

Movie Review: Young Hillary, in Alaska, pondering and questioning and gutting salmon — “When I’m a Moth”

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

“When I’m a Moth” is a fictional, myth-making and myth-puncturing look at a brief interlude in Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s early life, a summer she spent “sliming salmon” at a fish cannery in Valdez, Alaska. It’s a talky, mulling-things-over sort of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student” serves up Brazilian sass

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

“The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student” works itself into a lather for its finale, briefly becoming a door-slamming farce with a college applicant who faces deportation, his dismayed college admissions interviewer, a cadre of anti-deportation protestors, sheriff’s deputies, a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Sudanese youth lives under a prophecy — “You Will Die at Twenty”

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

The stark desert north of Sudan is realistically and beautifully captured in Amjad Abu Alala’s “You Will Die at Twenty,” a potent parable for life in this war torn and timelessly backward corner of the world. A Sudanese entry in … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Apple TV’s take on Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation”

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

Smart sci fi, good cast. This looks good.

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