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Review: Misan Harriman: Shoot the People

— by WILLIAM STERR —

“A struggle without documentation is no struggle at all” – Peter Magubane, South African Photographer.

Misan Harriman, who knew Magubane, and as a chronicler of civil struggles around the world has followed in the photographer’s footsteps, knows well what it is to be in the fight as well as documenting it. This documentary is his story.

Born in Nigeria in 1977, to a wealthy Warri chieftan, he was educated in England, where he is now a citizen. Long active in the arts and in civil struggles, he took up photography professionally in 2017, soon becoming recognized as a gifted practitioner. He has done numerous celebrity shoots, leading to his being the first black photographer to shoot the cover of “British Vogue.” (CONTINUED)


Review: Starman

— by BEV QUESTAD — Are we alone in the universe? Why am I here? Why is there a world? Those are the questions super genius Gentry Lee, a NASA robotics engineer, poses. He is called Starman. He answers those questions in a surprising exposé on extraterrestrial life. In the end, he presents the most […][...]


Review: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

— by BEV QUESTAD — Jamie was 10 and a music lover. I took him to see “La Bamba.” Though rated PG-13, the rating noted he movie had no nudity, sex, violence or swearing. What could go wrong? In the end, Jamie cried right out loud, grief-stricken about what happened to Ritchie Valens, who died […][...]


Review: Pescador

— by WILLIAM STERR — This is a strange one. First of all, the story was inspired by dreams the writer/director recalled from his time in an induced coma. Second, it includes a magical talking lobster. Third, it is divided into three very different parts. Part 1: The Woman Searches for a Fish A young […][...]


Review: In the Hand of Dante

— 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. […][...]


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 basically the game played on the big screen […][...]


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 Special” to come to […][...]


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 LDS when the mother church renounced polygamy. This film […][...]


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 approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the […][...]



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