I will admit that I listen to NPR and often refer to the main right wing cable news outlet as Faux News. Politically I lean pretty solidly to the left. So it doesn?t take much of an argument to convince me that the right wing media that have grown up over the last few...
The black and white cinematography of Bleak Street sets the mood. There is no brightness or cheer in the Mexico City neighborhood in which it is set. This is a world in which gray is the dominant color. The characters live in desperation and on the fringes of the...
Law or anarchy?which gives us the best chance of happiness? Should we follow all the rules society has developed over time or should we be free to follow our hearts and our desires? The Automatic Hate sets a love story amidst that conflict. Davis Green (Joseph Cross)...
?What you witnessed today with your coffee and biscuits was terrible. . ..? Now that drones are an important part of warfare, does it make war a little more sterile? Is it just a video game with actual explosions and real blood? Is it too easy to set aside the...
The root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be found in the history and development of Zionism. Colliding Dreams is a documentary that traces that history ?as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the land.? It provides a good introduction to some of the...
?The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream? Those words open Terrence Malick?s Knight of Cups. They are the full title of John Bunyan?s seventeenth century allegory of Christian life. The film itself is...
I think one of the most impressive things about Zootopia is not its animation quality (which is very good) or its storyline (which is certainly worthy of the Disney trademark), but the prescience of the filmmakers to have this film coming out when it does. Animated...
?To be a butterfly the caterpillar has to become a chrysalis first even if it never for a moment wanted to become one.? Only Yesterday is a 1991 anime film from Studio Ghibli that is just now being released in North America as a 25th Anniversary Edition. It is a...
In Jack of the Red Hearts, a castoff from the foster system finds a place to belong through dishonesty, ending up with a sense of self, responsibility, and care for another person to move to a better life. Hmm. When I put it like that doesn?t it sound so bad. And to...