Streaming Picks: Peace By Chocolate (2022) and Otherhood (2019)

Happy first full week of September! 🍂 Time for another mini-review of movies I saw on streaming recently. PEACE BY CHOCOLATE (2022) Based on a true story of the Hadhad family who fled war-torn Lebanon after the family's chocolate factory is bombed, the movie opens with a scene of Tareq Hadhad (Ayham Abou Ammar) during …

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David Mamet Double Feature – Part 1: The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

Greetings all and sundry! While becoming more and more ensconced in the wonders and vagaries of apartment living. I've taken some time to fall back on one of, if not the best and most prolific writers and directors of the 1980s, 90s and contemporary times, David Mamet. Who started small. With screenplays for the stage, …

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