?Happiness is a problem.? The self-help industry revolves around selling books or programs that will make you happy. The world of social media thrives by offering us constant exposure to the newest trends and fads. We are always being pushed to buy (or buy into) the...
?If only to be alive like that for just one day.? What makes a life important? What gives a life meaning? Do our mundane lives have any lasting impact on the world? Those are some of the deepest questions we may ever consider, yet, often they seem too difficult to...
For people who love characters in books, discovering a films or a TV series that presents them in the flesh may be welcome or feared?or both. So it was with hope and a bit of anxiety that my wife and I started watching Three Pines, based on the series of books by...
In Mauro Borrelli?s Mindcage, a serial copycat killer is on the loose. The police must ask the original killer for help. One of the detectives helped put him away, and is dealing with trauma of having to deal with these cases. What price will the original killer...
?Are you searching for truth?? ?Isn?t everyone?? ?And if you find it, what then?? In Benediction, from director Terence Davies, we follow 20th century poet Siegfried Sassoon in his search for ? well, maybe truth, but often happiness, belonging, and some sense of...
?They had said, ?We will come back for you. No matter how long it takes, we will come back.? Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, from director Arthur Karari, is the story of the last soldier fighting World War II. The film is loosely based on the true story of a...
"We will not ask for freedom. We will not wait for freedom to be handed to us. We will take freedom!? As one might expect from the title, Antoine Fuqua?s Emancipation is a story of freedom. The true story the film is based on involves a photo known as ?Whipped Peter?...
?The truth has its own power. . . . The power of the truth cannot be hidden, and when it?s hot, it surfaces and more people ask questions.? In 1948, Israel became a nation. Immediately, they were at war with the Arab world. Among Israelis this is known as the War of...
?Happy memories here. Other memories here.? Joanna Hogg?s The Eternal Daughter is a film that is bound to memory?of times past, of love, of relationship. It is dark and moody attempt to uncover the mystery of a mother/daughter bond that seems a bit cold and distant....