?You have to survive. It will be our revenge.? Steven Oritt?s premiere feature film, My Name Is Sara, is based on a true story from the Holocaust. It is like many other such stories, but it is also different from those stories as well. It is a bit of a reminder that...
?What we put together is the truth.? What begins as a righteous search for the truth in Yujiro Harumoto?s A Balance, devolves into lies and manipulation. It even begins to call into question whether we can trust those who are meant to bring us the truth. Yuko (Kumi...
?Nothing makes sense in this story.? While the quotation above may scare some people off, there is a great history of stories that don?t make sense, for example, Lewis Carroll?s stories about Alice. Aly Muritiba?s Jesus Kid may not be a trip to Wonderland, but it is...
?I?m not sure I know how to please a woman.? ?If you can say that, you?re a better man than most.? How to Please a Woman, written and directed by Ren?e Webster, is a risqu? comedy about women being given a voice in their own lives. In the process it exposes some of...
Nana Mensah?s dark comedy Queen of Glory is a look at life within the Ghanaian-American community as someone who was raised there. The idea of community and its power to bring healing are central to the story. Sarah Obeng (Mensah) is a doctoral student at Columbia,...
?Every man dies, not every man truly lives.? That truism has several variations and possible sources. Often it is through the nearness of death that we begin to see what life is really about. That is the concept that Hannah Marks explores in Don?t Make Me Go. JOHN CHO...
?It takes more time to solve adult problems.? ?Then, why didn?t you start solving them sooner?? It?s tempting to call Mounia Akl?s Costa Brava, Lebanon a trashy movie, but that might give the wrong idea. It is a movie that looks at the trash we cannot avoid, no matter...
Faith and doubt struggle within a police detective investigating a brutal murder in Under the Banner of Heaven. The FX/Hulu series is a fictionalized version of a non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer about a 1984 double murder in Utah. It is steeped in the beliefs of the...
Sniper: The White Raven is the story Ukraine wants to tell about itself in the midst of its war with Russia. Director and co-writer Marian Bushan leads us to see those fighting for their country as heroic and determined. Certainly, this is in line with the accounts we...