Let’s Go to the Movies: September 13, 2018: Haute Cuisine

Melissa and Aaron Dykes’ latest offering does a marvelous job of documenting the lavish expenditures of the uber-wealthy on funding extreme protests and street theater designed to fake a “grass…

This West German-produced epic fantasy film is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Michael Ende. The young hero fights and bests the “Nothing” – a force destroying all the meaning in the k…

https://youtu.be/MmZzK86el6w

This is the story of how the “most beautiful woman” of her time was also one of the most ingenious inventors of the twentieth century.

Hedy Lamarr—born in 1…

According to Wikipedia, Molon labe (Ancient Greek: μολὼν λαβέ, romanized: molṑn labé), meaning ‘come and take [them]’, is a classical expression of people defending thei…

https://youtu.be/nx3ctBjG6yI

The Man Who Invented Christmas (featuring, among others, the great Christopher Plummer) offers a many-layered narration not only of the presumed genesis of one of Ch…

https://youtu.be/42ivIRd9N8E

This week’s movie is a very well done, charming, and thought-provoking documentary about the ludicrous gender and transgender politics with which we are confronted…