A Time For Ilhan : Screening at Emerson College, Boston

  Boston: Bright Lights Film Series at Emerson College  are having a special screening of TIME FOR ILHAN ; Norah Shapiro’‘s excellent award winning documentary on the truly remarkable US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar This story of the Somali/American woman who single-handedly is changing the face of politics in Minnesota for good, is one of those … Continue reading

A TOUCH OF SIN

This is acclaimed director Jia Zhang-ke’s haunting and devastating take on how the rapid economic expansion of China is hitting the majority of people in these four separate stories of unparalleled violence. The first tale is of Dahai an ex-miner who goes on a rampage after he fails to report the Village Chief for selling … Continue reading

A Very British Scandal : the notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s.

    When most people think of a scandalously divorced woman who became a British Duchess, their minds turn to Wallis Simpson the American socialite who was the reason that the King of England abdicated in 1936.  However, there was another cause celebre 30 years later when the heiress and divorcee Margaret Whigham  and third wife … Continue reading

A Very Darren Crissmas – Live From The Beacon Theatre

  After seeing Emmy Award-winning actor Darren Criss convincingly singing “I’m Not Getting Married Today’ to Ward Billeisen in Broadway Backwards Fundraiser that he is ‘one of the boys’.  In fact just one month before this performance he married Mia Swier his girlfriend of several years. However, the star of Glee and also Ryan Murphy’s … Continue reading

A Very English Scandal

It would be A Very English Scandal if Hugh Grant used to be the ex-lover of every one’s favorite openly gay actor Ben Wishaw.  BUT this is fiction and although it is based on real life, it’s not their story but that of the ‘straight’ married Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe.  He was charged with … Continue reading

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