Month: July 2022

Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, but your emotional walls probably will.

Jeff Mitchell

“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” (2022) – “So many people hurt.  A lot of people died.  Always connected to them.  Grateful to survive.  I’m alive.” – Gabrielle Dee Giffords On Jan. 8, 2011 in front of a Tucson, Ariz. Safeway grocery store, a lone shooter wreaked havoc on a Congress on Your Corner event and killed six people and injured 13 others.  U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Giffords was one of the wounded, shot in the head and then rushed to a hospital.  While watching directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s…

‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ is a pleasant trip

Jeff Mitchell

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (2022) – “You dare to follow your dreams, Mrs. Harris.  Bravo.” – Natasha (Alba Baptista) Ada Harris (Lesley Manville), a London cleaning lady, hasn’t contemplated her dreams in years, except for wishing that her husband Eddie would walk through the front door of her basement apartment.  The year is 1957, and Eddie still hasn’t returned from the war.  So, Ada spends her days traveling on the London Town bus lines to her clients, tidying up their opulent flats and homes during the daylight hours, and…

Mia Isaac graciously arrives for a ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ interview

Jeff Mitchell

In “Don’t Make Me Go” (2022), Max (John Cho) is a single parent with a grim medical diagnosis.  Max doesn’t tell his teenage daughter, Wally (Mia Isaac), but he takes her on a road trip to meet her mom in this family drama from director Hanna Marks.  Mia graciously met ArtHouseFilmWire’s Jeff Mitchell over a Zoom call, and this talented young actress shares Wally’s perspectives, the amusing and stressful learning-how-to-drive scenes, the limited prep time she had with John, and much more! On Friday, July 15, “Don’t Make Me Go”…