How far will someone go to protect the ones they love? In Leah Purcell?s Australian Western, The Legend of Molly Johnson, we see one woman?s answer to that question in very trying conditions. The film is based on Purcell?s play which reimagined a nineteenth century...
Doctors take an oath to save lives. Sometimes that means making some hard decisions. For a group of doctors at a Catholic hospital in Rome in 1943, those decisions were very hard. It could have cost them their lives. Instead they infected a number of local Jews with a...
I can understand the fear of flying. An airplane is cramped, filled with strangers, under the control of someone you don?t know, and if something goes wrong there are very few good outcomes. In a world with pandemics all of this takes on new levels of worry. All of...
?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...