Feb 21, 2021
Episode 471
New Movies:
Nomadland - After losing
everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey
through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day
nomad.
The
Blackout - Centers around a group of friends and strangers at an
apartment party, set against the backdrop of Hurricane
Sandy.
Silk
Road - Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk
Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick
Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.
Burn
It All - An enraged woman battles a ring of violent organ smugglers
after returning to her hometown to bury her
mother.
Test
Pattern - Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose
relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually
assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to
hospital in search of a rape kit.
Truth to Power - The Grammy-winning lead singer
of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political
revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's
struggle for democracy through his music and
message.
Ruby
in Paradise (1993) - A young woman struggles for independence and
identity in a small Florida tourist town.
Undisputed Classic
Alex
in Wonderland - Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing
his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is
considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As
such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will
be. Alex has a few thoughts in his mind, such as a biopic of
Lenny Bruce, or a movie about a black uprising in Los
Angeles. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and
European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie
scenarios of those everyday situations he is in. These fantasies
are influenced by his movie idols, some who he meets such as
Italian director Federico Fellini and French actress Jeanne Moreau. Concurrently, he is considering what to do
about his personal life. He, his wife Beth and their two daughters
live a middle class lifestyle. He is wondering whether it makes
sense to "move up", which means that movie making not only has to
achieve his main purpose of saying something meaningful, but also
has to be commercially successful. That need for commercial success
may ultimately take artistic control out of his hands.
1991
Scenes From a Mall - On their
16th anniversary, a married couple's trip to a Beverly Hills mall
becomes the stage for personal revelations and
deceptions.
He
Said, She Said - TV viewers love seeing the two reporters with
opposing views on the show "He Said, She Said". Womanizer Dan and
Lorie fall for each other. Love?
Next
Week - The Vigil, Cherry (Apple TV), The United States vs Billie
Holiday (Hulu), Crazy About Her (Netflix)
Classic - The Coal Miner’s
Daughter
1991
- The Doors, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,
Shipwrecked
