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Us Directed by Jordan Peele Lupita Nyong’o Winston Duke Elisabeth Moss Here’s the thing about Jordan Peele ~ he’s so damn smart.   And he’s funny.   AND, he has something to say. You gotta love Jordan Peele.   If you never watched “ Key & Peele, ” find it now and watch it.   Right away.   That is some smart, funny, sketch comedy.   And it is thoughtful.   Good stuff.   Great.   Honestly. If you saw “ Get Out ,” written and directed by Jordan Peele, then, like me, you most likely felt so pleased for him and proud of him and happy to know him as much as a fan knows the subject of her admiration.   I’m pulling for this guy.   His success makes me happy. This was my mindset going into “Us.”   Oh boy!   Jordan Peele!   He’s made another scary movie!   I CAN’T WAIT to see it! So right there was my problem.   I sidestepped one of my own cardinal rules o...

Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Director 5 0ut of 6 Ai Weiwei , artist and activist, made the film, Human Flow, to call attention to a humanitarian crisis across the globe – that of refugees.  He traveled to 23 countries documenting the plight of throngs of people – hundreds of thousands; millions – forced to flee their homelands because of the violence of war, religious persecution, drought, plague of disease and every other creator of misery known to man. We get the impression early on that Ai kept a written journal along with his video journal, and somewhere late in the process, maybe in post-production, the pages of the journal were torn from their binding and scattered in the wind.  He collected them all and reassembled them with little concern for chronology, context, or linear thinking.  He’s an artist , after all. His product is beautiful in so many aspects.  Breathtaking images of sunsets, seas, and the mesmerizin...