The new movie, “42,” tells the should-be-well-known story of Jackie Robinson, the first black player in major league baseball. For American sports fans of
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Emperor: When you call a movie “historical,” it helps to include the history part
Here’s a lesson I should have learned by now: Beware of movies claiming to be “based on a true story.” The trailer for “Emperor” hinted
My Boy Jack, my boy George & political parables
My Boy Jack is a PBS historical drama that I stumbled upon [three years late!] over the New Year’s weekend. Based on a play
Political movies have short “screen lives” in St. Louis
Recently, twelve high-school students and four staff members of our non-profit went to see the exciting political thriller, “Fair Game” at the Tivoli Theater in University
“The Most Dangerous Man in America,” available, at last, on DVD
You have to be deep into middle age to know, first-hand, what Daniel Ellsberg did in the early 1970s to expose the top-level lies