Walter McMillian. Never heard of him? He was a black tree-worker from Monroeville, Alabama who, in 1988, was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. This bio-pic, based on the book by his lawyer and his controversial case, was also featured on TV’s 60 Minutes, which can be seen on YouTube. * The deep…
This really happened. Based on Marie Brenner’s Vanity Fair magazine article, American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell, this fact based story is about how the media and the FBI tried to convict an innocent man of a crime he never committed because they needed a scapegoat. * Ten years before the tragic events of…
He’s back! After a string of truly awful movies (Harlem Nights, Pluto Nash, Holy Man, A Thousand Words, Norbit) Eddie Murphy took a much needed break from his questionable film career and finally zeroed in on a script that looked like it might resurrect his once dominant movie career. Did it work? * Based on…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Dr. Strange, Spider-man, General Zod, and X-Men’s Beast walk into a bar and… oh, ya heard that one, huh? Never mind. In a sorta-kinda true story, we meet the trifecta of powerful men that ruled the electric waves: Westinghouse, Edison, and Tesla. * First, a backstory: this movie…
In a bold departure, this movie just chronicles the last sad and tumultuous days of singer/actress Judy Garland who, back in 1969, was broke and unemployed and attempted to stage a come-back in London with a five-week run of sold-out concerts. Plagued by her own demons, her final concerts was the stuff of legend. *…
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