Mathematicians trying to get an American into orbit face a double challenge, they are African American women, in a white-male dominated NASA.
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Hidden Figures. DVD. Blue-Ray. IMDB pro-rating 7.9 with 93% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Theodore Melfi, with a script by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder, from a non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Three African-American mathematicians, working at NASA, are elevated to assist in getting the first American Astronaut in space. Tarji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae star.
Lion. DVD. Blue-Ray. IMDB pro-rating 8.1 with 86% satisfaction on Rotten Tomatoes. A bio-film directed by Garth Davis, based on the true-story book written by Saroo Brierly and Larry Buttrose. A young Indian boy rummages for coal with his older brother in the train yards. He sells what he scavenges to buy food for his family. One day he is tired and goes into a train car and falls asleep. He wakes up after the train is moving, miles away from his home. He ends up hundreds of miles from home with no way of getting back. He doesn’t even know the name of his home town. He is given refuge by a woman who has ulterior motives. He runs away before he is sold into slavery, only to be found and taken to an orphanage where he is adopted by an Australian family and taken to Tasmania. Years later, as an adult, he tries to reconnect with his lost family in India. Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara and David Wenham star.
Brimstone. DVD. Blue-Ray. IMDB pro-rating 7.1 with 43% satisfaction on Rotten Tomatoes. A Western Thriller, written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. Dakota Fanning knows her family is in trouble when a vengeful preacher comes to town. Guy Pearce plays the nemesis. Kit Harington also stars.
War on Everyone. DVD. Blue-Ray. IMDB pro-rating 5.9 with a 56% satisfaction on Rotten Tomatoes. Written and Directed by John Micael McDonagh. Two corrupt cops terrorize a community by blackmailing criminals. Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Pena, Theo James, Tessa Thomson, Caleb Landry Jones..
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