The United States of America is celebrated as the land of the free, and heralded as a place of great opportunity for entrepreneurs. While true, there’s also a dark grey lining to the silver optimism of that sunny-faced reading, because for almost every societal innovation that helps change and better the way we live, there’s some tale of an enterprising inventor getting screwed out of credit or otherwise left twisting in the wind due to corporate ruthlessness. The engaging documentary Genius on Hold details one such story, and if its attempts to weld a larger allegorical framework extending both backwards and forward in time onto a more structured familial narrative come across as rather hamfisted overreach, there’s still enough of interest here to generally satisfy alt-history buffs. It’s a movie that underscores that the winners and losers of some battles of capitalism aren’t always confined to a single generation; its shadows are long ones. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here; for more information on the movie, click here to visit its website. (Freestyle Releasing/Top Cat Productions, PG, 91 minutes)