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...
?He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts? and the angels ministered to him.? (Mark 1:13, NRSV) ?To prepare for his mission, the holy man went into the desert to fast and pray, and to seek guidance.? -opening title card in...
Before the screening I attended of Captain America: Civil War, the screen was filled with a message encouraging people to take part in the social media strategy of the film by tweeting either #TeamCap or #TeamIronMan to designate which side they favor. Welcome to the...