2020

Coded Bias

This helpful, informative documentary is hosted by an attractive, charming Ph.D. candidate at MIT, Joy Buolamwini.  She works in the MIT Media Lab with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and after she began realizing the potential harm in its intrinsic bias, she founded the Algorithmic Justice League.  She is joined by numerous other researchers and

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Ammonite

Before it premiered, there were hopes that Francis Lee’s new film would put Kate Winslet in the race for next year’s best actress Oscar. Hopes were dashed though after the reviews from this year’s virtual Toronto Film Festival, labeling it as dry, mute, and bleak. The fan fiction element of the story tries to balance facts

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City Hall

For a comprehensive look at city government, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall would be almost all you would need to see. Not that every city is the same, but to see the wide breadth of a big city mayor’s reach and responsibilities, it’s educational.  At least it was for me; although I’ve lived in a big city for years, always

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Kindred

It’s very difficult to write a good horror story, and Kindred serves as an example of what can go wrong. Making the story horrific and plausible where the plausibility enhances the terror is key to a successful horror film or book.  Jordan Peale’s Get Out is a prime example of success.  Even though there’s only a remote chance that any of us will come

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Let Him Go

Not a prequel about Clark Kent’s parents, but Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Kevin Costner (“The Highwaymen”) do reunite in this film as husband and wife again after “Man of Steel,” once more living on a farm, trying to protect their child. Based on Larry Watson’s novel, “Let Him Go” examines domestic abuse in early 1960’s as

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Come Play

Monster in the iPad is the simplest way to sum up Jacob Chase’s adaptation of “Larry,” a five-minute short film, into a full-length feature film. From the annoying kid in “Marriage Story” to the lead role here, Azhy Robertson portrays an autistic child who is being mentally tortured by a creature that travels through electric currents. In most

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