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It was the Queen Sugar season finale as Nova and Calvin had their first real date, Charley resorted to blackmail and manipulation to get what she wanted, and Ralph Angel got the shock of his life on “Give Us This Day.”

Our TV Fanatics, Jasmine Blu, Lee Jutton, and Christine Orlando, are here to debate the farm’s future, Ralph Angel’s choices, Nova and Calvin’s disastrous date night and what their favorite scenes from Queen Sugar Season 1 Episode 13.

Should Ernest have given the farm to Ralph Angel over his siblings?

Jasmine: You know what? I can understand why he did it. As he said, Ralph Angel needed it the most. he has been the one who prioritizes the farm over everything. It never was a burden or anything like that to him, like it was at times for his sisters.

Plus, it was like giving him one last lesson to learn posthumously.

This noir hits with the force of a blast furnace -- Cy Endfield's wrenching tale of social neglect and injustice will tie your stomach in knots. Sound like fun? An unemployed man turns to crime and reaps a whirlwind of disproportionate retribution. It's surely the most powerful of all filmic accusations thrown at the American status quo. Try and Get Me! Blu-ray Olive Films 1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 92 min. / Street Date April 19, 2016 / The Sound of Fury / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95 Starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke, Adele Jergens, Art Smith, Renzo Cesana, Irene Vernon, Cliff Clark, Donald Smelick, Joe E. Ross. Cinematography Guy Roe Production Design Perry Ferguson Film Editor George Amy Original Music Hugo Friedhofer Written by Jo Pagano from his novel The Condemned Produced by Robert Stillman Directed by Cyril Endfield

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Socially conscious 'issue' movies are not all made equal.

Edward Dmytryk's big-scale cattle empire saga sees paterfamilias Spencer Tracy drive away his sons and bull his way into a modern civil dispute that can't be resolved with force. Robert Wagner is the loyal son and Richard Widmark the resentful son impatient for Dad to cash in his chips. Fox's early CinemaScope and stereophonic sound western is a transposition of a film noir mystery thriller. Broken Lance Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1954 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 96 min. / Ship Date November 10, 2015 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O'Brian, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, E.G. Marshall, Carl Benton Reid, Philip Ober. Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Film Editor Dorothy Spencer Original Music Leigh Harline Written by Richard Murphy, Philip Yordan Produced by Sol C. Siegel Directed by Edward Dmytryk Reviewed by Glenn EricksonSome of the early 'big' westerns that aspire to epic status are...

Hollywood Exiles in Europe is a screening series co-curated by author Rebecca Prime and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Following a recent presentation of Christ in Concrete (1949) at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater, Norma Barzman, wife of the film's late screenwriter Ben Barzman, stated “it was the hope of her husband as well as director Edward Dmytryk that Christ in Concrete would at least explain the motivations of the Hollywood Ten and at best absolve them.”

Production for the film took placed in London during Dmytryk and Barzman's self-imposed exile in Europe following their blacklisting by the United States Congress's House Un-American Activities Committee. When Christ in Concrete (later re-titled Give Us This Day and eventually Salt to the Devil) arrived in American theaters it did so quietly, playing to regional crowds in New York before its hasty exit into a relative obscurity—at least as far as domestic audiences were concerned.

Film Southasia, Festival of South Asian Documentaries has announced its selection for 2013 edition. Fifteen Indian documentaries will be screened at the festival that will take place from 3-6 October in Kathmandu, Nepal. Film Southasia (Fsa) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularizing the documentary.

Selected Indian films:

A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla

Algorithms by Ian McDonald

Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles

Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi

Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee

Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray

Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose

Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney

Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj

Salma by Kim Longinotto

Sama by Shazia Khan

The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee

Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...