By Rachel Galvin As the streets of Iran have erupted with protestors enraged at the killing of a 22-year-old woman who dared to show a little too much hair from beneath her head scarf, a film called “Holy Spider” comes…
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Film Review: “My Name is Sara”
By Rachel Galvin As World War II rages and Jews are being rounded up by Nazis, a young 13-year-old Polish Jewish girl named Sara and her brother are instructed by their parents to escape before it is too late. As…
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By Rachel Galvin Photos by from Michelle Shwarzstein (Brainstorm Media) In the new Australian film “How to Please a Woman,” directed by Renee Webster, Gina (Sally Phillips) is a frustrated woman in her 50s in an unsatisfying marriage and unappreciated…
Read MoreFilm Review: “Joe Bell”
By Rachel Galvin Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg) walks a walk of penance in this film named after his moniker. It tells the true story of this man who treks across the United States from Oregon to New York preaching the…
Read MoreFilm Review: “The Courier”
By Rachel Galvin As the Cuban Missle crisis ramps up, Grenville Wynne, an unassuming English salesman played by Bernadict Cumberbatch, has been recruited by MI6 and a beautiful CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan,known for playing Midge in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)…
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