?I often wonder what could have been if I had made different choices.? Films sometimes approach adultery as just another way to find happiness. After all, when you meet someone and fall in love, why shouldn?t you be together. Of course real life is never that simple....
?Does doing things the legal way really work better?? Marauders is a battle of good guys and bad guys, but with characters who keep changing sides. The film opens with a surgically efficient bank robbery. FBI agent Montgomery (Christopher Meloni) leads a team of...
?Dreams are so quick.? ?Yeah, on the outside. They?re long on the inside.? I find it interesting that the same year Steven Spielberg brought us E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, children?s book author Roald Dahl published The BFG, a kind of bedtime fairy tale. Now Spielberg...
?Faith is twenty-four hours of doubt and one minute of hope.? The Innocents is one of my favorites from the Newport Beach Film Festival. Set in late 1945 Poland, Mathilde (Lou de Laage), a young French woman doctor, is summoned to a Benedictine convent to aid in the...
The Rio Olympics are around the corner. Some countries have massive programs that provide support and sponsorship for athletes in many sports. The athletes can devote a major part of their lives to their sport. The U.S. has training facilities and developmental...
?The river doesn?t speak. It only divides: the light from the dark, life and death.? The Duel, set in the wild Texas of the late nineteenth century, boils down to a battle between darkness and light, between good and evil. David Kingston (Liam Hemsworth), a young...
?Right now, the line between human and non-human animals is at an irrational place. If you?re a human, you have rights; if you?re not, you don?t. We?re saying that?s wrong.? Is there in fact a fundamental difference between human and non-human? Certainly there is in...
?Me and this fat kid We ran and ate and read books. And it was the best!? In Hunt for the Wilderpeople, an urban foster child is placed with a rural couple. It doesn?t seem like a very good fit. Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is described by the child services worker...
?Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.? (Jalal ad-Din Rumi) Revolutions can bring great advancement, but they often bring pain and chaos in their wake. Septembers of Shiraz is the story of an Iranian Jewish family that...