?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...
?I don?t need permission to do good deeds.? In the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine, abandoned and orphaned children face a life of addiction and abuse. For many years, Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko has made a name for himself by creating the largest children?s rehab facility...
Manhattan Night is a trip back into the feel of classic noir. Based on the novel Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison, this film has the hard-nosed, soft-hearted protagonist pulled into a world of twisted characters and a very twisted plot by a femme fatale. He must...
In The Measure of a Man fifty-one year old Thierry (Vincent Lindon) is a former factory worker who has been out of work for many months. We watch as he goes through the frustrations and humiliation of training for a new job (that no one will hire him for after the...