If you look up ?curmudgeon? in a Swedish dictionary, you may well find a picture of Ove (Rolf Lassg?rd) from the book and now movie A Man Called Ove. It?s not that Ove is a general misanthrope; it?s just that he can?t stand ?idiots? (especially the white shirt...
Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, we are told in Seed: The Untold Story, 96% of the seed varieties have disappeared. Most of this is the result of changes in agriculture that has promoted high yields and corporate profits over biodiversity. It could be...
In Is That a Gun in Your Pocket, a war between the sexes breaks out in little Rockford, Texas (population 6,969, ?Live Free. Shoot Straight?). This is a town with a strong gun culture. We see the theater marquee for the Rockford Film Festival which is screening Naked...
Operation Avalanche is a mockumentary about a mockumentary dealing with a conspiracy of a hoax. Needless to say, truth is not high on the agenda. In 1967 the CIA suspects that the Soviets have a mole in the NASA space program. A pair of young agents (Matt Johnson and...
The cost of higher education continues to soar. In the past, public universities were often much cheaper, allowing more people to attend because states provided most to the money for the schools. No more. In 1980, such funding peaked in the area of 70%, in 2012 it was...
?I seek righteousness, as should we all, but I?ll take revenge.? The Magnificent Seven is a search for both righteousness and revenge even as it considers whether or not the two can coexist. Of course this is not the first version of the story. This is a remake (or...
?An equation has no meaning to me unless it expresses a thought of God.? Theoretical mathematics may not seem a fertile ground for a movie, yet there have been some very popular and acclaimed films grounded in that discipline (A Beautiful Mind and The Imitation Game...
In case you haven?t noticed, there are still race issues in America. The most recent way this has flared up revolves around the number of African Americans killed by police?often unarmed. But there is much more to the problem than that. When Justice Isn?t Just tries...
?You won?t know until you get there that you?re okay.? Can a comically dysfunctional family deal with a looming crisis? That is the setup for The Hollars, but there?s more here than bumbling through the situation. It also provides a bit of insight into what it means...