Tribeca Film Festival: Black Butterflies and Nelson Mandela
But Ingrid Yonker was in no way forgotten, as Nelson Mandela reads her poetry three decades later at the convening of the very first post-apartheid South African Parliament. Writer/director Paola van der Oest describes with extraordinary compassiona
Black in Latin America PBS-TV Review
A half-dozen countries serve as the focus of this four-part series, namely, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Gates travels to each nation to talk to the locals, capturing the flavor of the present-day culture in the ligh
Water For Elephants Movie Review
Pattinson is Jacob in Water For Elephants, a shy, sensitive Cornell veterinary student and son of a Polish immigrant, forced to leave college following a family tragedy. Fed up anyway with 'six years of dissections, castrations and shoving my arms
Atlas Shrugged Movie Review: Ayn Rand Tea Party Animal?
Atlas Shrugged taunts the status quo with a combo greed is fabulous mantra laced with topsy turvy Marxism extolling robber barons in mass rebellion. But in the end seems to be serving up nothing more than lots of hokey wishful thinking, disclaimer f
Scream 4 Film Review
It's Been a Decade Since The Homicidal Maniac Known as Ghostface (voiced By Roger L. Jackson) Last Embarked on a Harrowing Reign of Terror around The City of Woodsboro.
