Tell it To the Bees TELL IT TO THE BEES (2018) Starring Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk, Emun Elliott, Lauren Lyle, Kate Dickie, Steven Robertson, Rebecca Hanssen, Scott Andrew, Lauren Annie Boyle, Ben Bradley, Joanne Gallagher, Zara Howell, Leo Hoyte-Egan, Isaac Jenkins, Sarah McCardie and Alexa Snell. Screenplay by Henrietta Ashworth and Jessica Ashworth. Directed by Annabel Jankel. Distributed by Good Deed Entertainment. 106 minutes. Not Rated. Screened at t

Roots Roots (Lionsgate Home Video-2016) In 1976, the original Roots miniseries was a defining cultural event.  It was not the first of the miniseries – or “novels for television,” as they dubbed the form at the time.  A 1974 version of Leon Uris’ QB VII was the first miniseries to be filmed by the American networks. Irwin Shaw’s Rich Man, Poor Man was the first miniseries to really capture the imagination of the public, becoming very popular and critically acclaimed. However

THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015) Featuring the voices of  Raymond Ochoa, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Elliott, Maleah Nipay-Padilla, Ryan Teeple, Jack McGraw, Marcus Scribner, Jack Bright, A.J. Buckley, Anna Paquin, Peter Sohn, Steve Zahn, Mandy Freund, Steven Clay Hunter, Dave Boat, Carrie Paff, Calum Mackenzie Grant and John Ratzenberger. Screenplay by Meg LeFauve. Directed by Peter Sohn. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.  93 minutes.  Rated PG. After nearly 20 years o

Gregg Daniel at the New York City Public Library. Photo © 2014 Mark Doyle. All rights reserved. Gregg Daniel The Gospel According to True Blood’s Reverend Daniels by Jay S. Jacobs Whether he is treading the boards of the Great White Way (or it’s Los Angeles equivalent) or saving souls in the fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, Gregg Daniel demands attention. Not in some harsh and insistent way.  No, Daniel is much more is much more subtle in his approach.  Daniel is a long

Breckin Meyer in “Blue State.” Breckin Meyer Blue Period by Jay S. Jacobs With interest in politics at a high-water mark in the United States due to an unusually intriguing race for President, perhaps it is a happy coincidence that the film Blue State positions a breezy romantic comedy in the midst of ancient history: the fallout of the Bush-Kerry election of 2004. The movie stars Breckin Meyer as John Logue, a former Kerry campaign worker who on the eve of the election drunk

Blue State BLUE STATE  (2008) Starring Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Adriana O’Neill, Joyce Krenz, Richard Blackburn, Seun Olangunju, Nicolas Oullette, Grace Lynn Kung, Cory Cassidy, Leigh Enns, Liz Sroka and George W. Bush. Screenplay by Marshall Lewy. Directed by Marshall Lewy. Distributed by 20th Century Fox.  90 minutes.  Rated PG-13. If you have a 1.20.09 bumper sticker (or even if you know what they mean), then you have a kindred spirit in John Logue, the lead character i