Belle, UK, Amma Asanta, (2013)

Good frock flick, but more:
With soul mate fights slavery:
Through fraud in Zong case.

Birdman, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, UK (2014)

Edit points concealed.
With every trick in the book.
Sad, funny, and deep.

The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, UK, (2014)

Three tenses at once,
Shame to all who moralize!
The story well told. 

American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, USA (2014)

Sheep, wolf, and sheepdog,
Reduced to a stock cliche:
Karma is a bitch. 

The Intouchables, Oliver Nakache & Eric Toledano, France (2011)

Thirty-one awards.
Never laugh at a cripple.
They do, and it works.

The First Grader, Justin Chadwick, UK (2011)

Whitewashed history,
The Mau Mau fought for freedom,
Then to read as well. 

Selma, Ava DuVernay, USA (2015)

Piercing to the heart,
Snubbed by White Academy;
Still so far to go.  

Wentworth, Australia Crime Drama, Seasons 2013, 2014

Relentless power,
Victimized inside and out.
Girls need to watch out.

Gone Girl, David Fincher, US, (2014)

Sociopath wife,
Whose game is it anyways?
Almost perfect crimes.

Homeland, Howard Gordon, US TV Series, Seasons 3 & 4, (2013-14)

Trip over Egos,
Too arrogant to notice:
Foreign policy.