A Satirical Bestseller Unveils the Complex Layers of African American Life Writer / Andy Ray During the 1960s, Sidney Poitier was the quintessential black actor. His noble and upstanding characters...

In 1957, the European auto racing industry was at a crossroads. The two primary Italian racing teams – Ferrari and Maserati – were struggling to continue to fund their racing...

Film Review Eileen Dunlop is a blank slate. She has no life. She lives with her widowed alcoholic father, the retired police chief of the small, unnamed Massachusetts town where...

Film Review British actress Emerald Fennell made her big screen directorial debut with 2020’s highly acclaimed “Promising Young Woman,” in which Carey Mulligan turned in the best performance of her...

Film Review Other than the classic 1927 silent film and a 1955 French production, there has never been a serious attempt to make a sweeping epic biopic of the infamous...

In 2004, director Alexander Payne treated us to “Sideways,” a road-trip buddy movie about two forty-something guys and their journey through California’s Napa Valley wine country. It starred Paul Giamatti...

Twenty years ago near Savannah, Georgia, a middle-aged woman named Gracie Atherton made tabloid news due to her illicit affair with a 13-year-old Korean-American boy, Joe Yoo. Their liaison destroyed...

Coming just a year after Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” (a historical account of Elvis Presley’s longtime manager and “career controller” Col. Tom Parker), Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” is the story of Priscilla...

Although primarily associated with the gangster film genre, Martin Scorsese’s filmography is chock full of a wide variety of styles and film categories. If a common theme could be applied...

Film Review Written by Andy Ray Junior and Henrietta have been married seven years.  The so-far childless couple lives on a farm which has been in Junior’s family for five...