What makes a religion? Do all worldviews have the same validity? How are we to judge? Those are all worthy questions for consideration. I had hopes that I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story would provide some insight to those issues, but in the end I was disappointed. This rather brief film (56 minutes) centers… [Read More]
Suzi Q – A Rock Trailblazer
Suzi Quatro is for some a rock and roll icon. She was one of the first women in rock to play bass and be the front person. Before Deborah Harry or Joan Jett (both of whom we hear from), there was Suzi. But at least in North America, her fame is a bit tempered. Suzi… [Read More]
House of Hummingbird – The Trials of 8th Grade
“It takes some time to learn to like yourself.” Bora Kim’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama House of Hummingbird takes us inside the struggle of a middle school girl as she keeps looking for something in her life that will bring emotional nurture and fulfilment. Eighth grader Eun-hee (Ji-hu Park) is seen by many of her classmates… [Read More]
Unsettled – Looking for New Lives
The life of a refugee is hard. It is even harder when the refugees are LGBTQ persons. In Tom Shepard’s documentary Unsettled, we meet four of these asylum seekers as the begin their time in the US. Subhi is a gay man from Syria, whose life has been threated many times by Islamic extremists and… [Read More]
The Surrogate – A Difficult Choice
The Surrogate is an exploration of making difficult ethical and emotional decisions. It gives us a situation that doesn’t have a clear correct answer, but does have various perspectives to look at the issues involved. We may have our own ideas of what should happen, but even if we think we have the right answer,… [Read More]
Return to Hardwick – A Slice of History
The 93rd Bomber Group was a highly decorated American fighting unit in the Second World War. In Return to Hardwick we revisit a bit of the unit’s history. Hardwick Aerodrome 104, in England’s East Anglia, was an active airfield from which B-24 bombers would set out on (and hopefully return from) dangerous missions over Germany…. [Read More]
Tommaso – Too Much Imagination?
In Abel Ferrara’s Tommaso, the lines between imagination and reality are never clearly demarcated. That is true not only for the viewer, but, as the film progresses, it is an increasingly difficult boundary for the protagonist to navigate. Tommaso (Willem Dafoe) is an American ex-pat living in Rome with his European wife Nikki (Cristina Chiriac)… [Read More]
Saint Frances – Speaking the Unspeakable
“You’re the adult, right?” Adulthood is something that Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan, who wrote the script) hasn’t quite mastered, in spite of her thirty-four years. She’s just kind of drifting along with no great ambition or direction. When she gets a summer job as a nanny for six year old Frances (Ramona Edith-Williams), she’s a bit… [Read More]
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
“How can it be that a white British woman knows more about Mexican cooking that anyone else?” Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is the story of a passion. When a British woman found her way to Mexico in 1957, she discovered a love for the food and the culture. For the past six decades, Diana Kennedy… [Read More]
A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
“All this will not be finished, but let us begin.” (John F. Kennedy) For nearly 60 years, Americans have volunteered to go to other countries to build communities and form bonds through the Peace Corps. A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps, directed by Alana DeJoseph, herself a Returned Peace Corp Volunteer, traces… [Read More]
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