?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...
?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...