?Life teaches everybody. Some learn quick, others slow. Some learn too much, others not enough.? Iranian filmmaker Mohammed Rasoulof tells stories that deal with trying to live an ethical life in a less than conducive setting. A Man of Integrity shows the difficulty...
?I?ve waited forty years for it to be just us, and so far, we suck at it.? Retirement can be a challenge for people who have been busy their whole lives. It helps if you find a hobby to fill your time. Maybe that hobby turns out to be lucrative?lucrative enough to...
?The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.? Phil Wall?s documentary...
School desegregation reached Boston in 1974. It turned into violent confrontations, especially in South Boston. It was a time of racial animus and tension. It was disruptive to both White and Black families. The Walk, from director Daniel Adams, is a story of two...
?No one can say you didn?t try.? I?m not a fan of watching or playing golf, but I am in awe of those who can play at the professional level. That?s because I?m absolutely awful at it. Craig Roberts?s The Phantom of the Open is the story of a novice who tries to play...
The trailer for Alfonso Pineda Ulloa?s There Are No Saints declares ?The road to redemption is paved in blood.? The film is not a film about redemption, but about that road?a very difficult search for redemption that may or may not be possible for the central...
The Last Victim, from director Naveen A. Chathapuram, is a story of bad people doing bad things and the way the evil keeps multiplying with each addition to the body count (which is pretty high). It?s styled as a neo-western, but it could easily have been an urban...
?When all is said and done, he really is a pretty good neighbor, isn?t he?? In 1961, a Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery in London. It is the only theft that has ever occurred from the Gallery. The story of that theft and the...
The innocence of childhood may present an opportunity for magic to happen. The openness of a child can allow for things that we might think impossible. If we allow ourselves to be carried along in that openness and innocence, we may find ourselves enchanted by Petite...