— by WILLIAM STERR — Imagine you have just been told that one of the most famous poems in the world, one whose original text is lost to history, has instead been hidden in a crypt in the Vatican for centuries. Not only that, you are being commissioned to go to Italy and recover it. [&hel[...]
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Review: Iron Lung
— by WILLIAM STERR — 120 minutes of inarticulate mumbling in a claustrophobic cylinder, intermingled with four minutes of excitement. This is another video game-to-movie production. For those of you who are not gamers, or at least have not played the game “Iron Lung,” the movie is ba[...]
Review: Honeyjoon
— by WILLIAM STERR — What an emotional roller coaster! Lela and June, mother and daughter, have arrived in the Azores, a spot their husband and father loved but never had a chance to share with them. So, as the anniversary of his death draws near, they’ve booked into a “Honeymoon Spe[...]
Review: Diabolic
— by WILLIAM STERR — Many religions have received negative treatment in the movies. In “Diabolic,” it’s the turn of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), commonly known as the Mormons. More specifically, its the FLDS, a Fundamental group that splintered from the LD[...]
Review: Everybody to Kenmure Street
— by WILLIAM STERR — It was early in the morning of May 13, 2021. The place was the neighborhood of Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. The street was Kemure. The UK Immigration Enforcement, under the control of the Home Secretary Priti Patel (notorious Thatcherite who among other things a[...]
Review: Nuremberg
— by WILLIAM STERR — Hitler is dead, Germany has fallen, and most remaining Nazi leaders have been captured. However one, Hermann Göring, second only to Adolph Hitler in the Nazi hierarchy, remains at large. Then, American troops stop a Nazi-flagged limousine in Austria – a limousine [...]
Review: Marama
— by WILLIAM STERR — The Maori are the indigenous inhabitants of what is now New Zealand. A proud, warrior people, brutal retaliation, including cannibalism, held a place in their rituals into the 19th century. It’s late in the 1850s. Mary Stevens (Ariana Osborne – “Millie Lies[...]
Review: The Sheep Detectives
— by WILLIAM STERR — English shepherd George Hardy (Hugh Jackman) has a simple but idyllic life. He lives in an Airstream trailer on his 300 acres with a flock of loving creatures – his sheep. After a full day of tending to the flock, including treating any suffering from the disease [...]
Review: Daughters of the Forest
— by WILLIAM STERR — “Daughters of the Forest” takes a remarkable look at the life of fungi in the native forests of Oaxaca and Mexico states in southern Mexico. But it is so much more. The film begins with rain falling in the forest. On the forest floor peeking out of the du[...]
Review: American Agitators
— by WILLIAM STERR — This is the story of the life and achievements of Fred Ross and his son Fred Ross Jr. – and all the people and organizations they affected. Writer/director Raymond Telles and writer Angella Reginato have created a moving exploration of the career of one of the most[...]
Review: Spacewoman
— by WILLIAM STERR — This is the story of astronaut Eileen Collins. Born and raised in Elmira, NY, a declining industrial town, she rose from poverty to pilot and command four space shuttle missions, including the first one after the Columbia disaster. She was the first woman to do so. B[...]
Review: Palestine ’36
— by WILLIAM STERR — The Palestinian people have been fighting for their rights even longer than you might think. During WWI, British Lord Balfour, who from his writing and the parliamentary bills he supported had racist and anti-Semitic views, authored the Balfour Declaration, which cal[...]
Review: The Divine Sarah Bernhardt
— by WILLIAM STERR — Nearly a century and a half ago, one of the greatest names in theater, worldwide, was Sarah Bernhardt. She was a French actress, artist, theater manager and play producer. The new film “The Divine Sarah Bernhardt” captures various points in her career. This is no[...]
Review: Hamnet
— by WILLIAM STERR — A film for the decade. Hamnet was nominated by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as one of the 10 best American films of 2025. But it didn’t win. Instead, a film about the insane violence of American people against each other received the Oscar for B[...]