Last night I watched the Tom Hanks' movie, News of the World
which is showing on HBO. It was released in theaters at the height of the pandemic last Christmas. No way was I going to see it, but had been hoping it would be released to HBO or Showtime or Netflix this summer.
It's a really well crafted film. Hanks is, of course, wonderful. The child actor, Helena Zengel, is terrific as the twice orphaned child whose birth family was murdered by the Kiowa, and then loses the Kiowa parents who have been raising her. Hanks takes on returning her to an aunt and uncle hundreds of miles away in the hill country of Texas, 1870. I had to laugh when on their journey Hanks and the girl encounter a closed county run by a ruthless autocrat who wants to keep out blacks, Indians, Yankees and anyone who would dare to challenge his authority. Hmm...same story 150 years later?
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/news_of_the_world
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