THE LAST CLASS (2024) Featuring Robert Reich. Directed by Elliot Kirschner. Distributed by Abramorama. 71 minutes. Not Rated. “I’ve been a professor, a teacher, for 42 years,” Robert Reich explains early on in this film about his last semester teaching at the University of California in Berkeley. “I’ve done a lot of other things, but … Continue reading
FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (2018) Featuring Michael Moore, Senator Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, David Hogg, Emma González, John Podesta, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Ben Ferencz, Krystal Ball, Roger Stone and archival footage of Donald Trump, Rick Snyder, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. Directed by Michael Moore. Distributed by Briarcliff Entertainment. 120 minutes. Not Rated. … Continue reading
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL – TRUTH TO POWER (2017) Featuring Al Gore, Dale Ross, Chris Hayes, Justin Trudeau and news footage of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merckel, Jim Inhof, Tom Rielly and Xi Jinping. Directed by Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 100 … Continue reading
Anna Deavere Smith Notes from The Field Tackles Issues Through Many Voices by Brad Balfour With a raft of accolades in her résumé, American actress/playwright/professor Anna Deavere Smith produces work that highlights the plight of the underclass, the unvoiced and those overlooked by entitled society. In her most recent one-woman production – Notes from The … Continue reading
Dana Carvey and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Making Good First Impressions by Jay S. Jacobs Everyone has one. An impression, that is. The ability to change your voice and mannerisms to portray another person – usually a celebrity – for a good-natured laugh. While impressions play a huge role in comedy television, it’s rather surprising that … Continue reading
RABIN IN HIS OWN WORDS (2015) Featuring archival footage of Yitzhak Rabin, Leah Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Yitzhak Shamir, Moshe Arens, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dalia Rabin-Pelossof … Continue reading
Michael Beck Fondly Celebrates And Reflects On The 36th Anniversary Of The Warriors, The 35th Anniversary of Xanadu, The Premiere Of His New Film The Grace Of Jake, And Discusses His Extraordinary And Iconic Career By Arlene R. Weiss Actor Michael Beck is best known for indelibly portraying the iconic role of Swan in director Walter Hill’s fantastical, surrealistic, hit cult film, … Continue reading
Megan Boone & Jon Bokenkamp Back in Blacklist by Jay S. Jacobs When we last left Elizabeth Keen and her team several weeks ago her life and her career was in complete chaos. First of all, she had freed her two-timing double-agent former husband Tom (Ryan Eggold) from a watery prison. Her partner Ressler (Diego … Continue reading
Scott Turow Return to Innocent by Jay S. Jacobs Is it fair to say that Scott Turow has made the law sexy and dangerous? Well, perhaps that is a bit of a stretch. However, over the past two decades lawyer and novelist Turow has fostered the reputation as the finest writer of legal thrillers, creating … Continue reading
Dharma & Greg Season One (1997-1998) (Twentieth Century Fox-2006) Watching the terrific Dharma and Greg reminds us of the time in which it was first broadcast, the late nineties; an era not so far away, yet compared to what was to come, now seems like a million years ago, a tranquil oasis of nice and peaceful. If we miss … Continue reading
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