I came a little late to streaming TV. Up until I moved, hopefully for the last time, I was a cable girl. We had a large and perfectly reliable flatscreen TV monitor that we bought in 2005. I bought an Amazon Firestick thinking I could ditch my cable and save some money but it wasn't compatible with my soundbar. My roommate is a TV junkie and before I moved in, she had signed … [Read more...]
My First and Last Film: Interview with the Director Tracey Thomas
I love it when women take it upon themselves to do something that they’ve never done before. Tracey Thomas, a Baby Boomer woman from Milwaukee, produced and directed the documentary “My First and Last Film.” Now on Amazon Prime. She interviewed various people over 60 to find out how they felt about aging. While the film was in production, Dennis, her cinematographer/ … [Read more...]
Green Book: Movie Review
Every year I attend an Oscar party with friends and we have a betting pool to pick the winners. Even though most of the pundits predicted “Roma,” “Roma,” “Roma,” I knew in my gut it would not win Best Picture. I checked off “Green Book,” because it was my favorite film of 2018. And I was right! It was the surprise winner that year. Don't ask me about the other … [Read more...]
Struggle: Documentary Film Review
In 2013, I wrote a blog post about a genius artist and sculptor I knew in the early 1980s. His name was Stanislav Szukalski. It caught the eye of the producers of a documentary film about his life called "Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski." They asked me to do a filmed interview and I appear in the film for a few seconds. It was produced by George and Leonardo … [Read more...]
BlacKkKlansman: Movie Review
I’m trying to make sense of last week. Within 72 hours, there were 3 hate-filled crimes committed on U.S. soil. A white man failed to barge into a black church with a gun, so he walked into a Kroger store in Kentucky and shot 2 African Americans. (we didn’t hear much about that) Next was the pipe bomb assassination attempts of 2 former U.S. Presidents, high officials, … [Read more...]
