?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...
?I?m a cab driver. I?m going to drive my cab till I can?t drive it no more.? When mortality suddenly becomes a reality, a cab driver in the Australian Outback decides he wants to face death on his own terms. Rex Macrea (Michael Caton), a crusty loner in Broken Hill,...
?What if I forget you? Will you ever forget me?? Finding Dory, as you might guess from the title, is centered on the blue tang from Finding Nemo. In this sequel (co-directed by Andrew Stanton, who directed Finding Nemo, and Angus MacLane), we get to see Dory (again...
?What did his grandfather do?? Does it seem odd that the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe is found in Berlin? When filmmaker Tal Recanati (a Jewish American) traveled to Germany and found a vibrant Jewish community that has grown in the seventy years since...
?Stop thinking as an individual and start thinking as a team.? What does it mean to belong, and to what lengths will we go to be a part of a group? In The Fits, a girl begins to find a place where she is connected to other girls, but when a strange malady begins...
In the chaos of battle, mistakes can be made. Oscar-nominated A War looks at some of the consequences of such mistakes on a very personal level. The film is from Danish director Tobias Lindholm who previously made a quite personal story about piracy in A Hijacking....
The God Cells raises some interesting questions?some by what is said, some by what is not said. The combination of those questions leaves me very torn as to how to approach this documentary. On the one hand, it shares information for a medical treatment that could...
When the beautiful, young, middle-class Morgan (Adriana Mather) meets Jordan (Zach Villa) at a club, she really isn?t sure about him. He is a gender-bending, art school dropout who won?t accept a label. He expresses his freedom through a kind of Bohemian lifestyle,...
?You cannot change the past, miss, but I daresay you might learn from it.? Fans of Lewis Carroll will know that Alice Through the Looking Glass is a reference to his second story about the young girl named Alice. However, since the previous Disney film Alice in...