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...
Valentyn Vasyanovych?s Reflection is a look at war and its aftermath. The film is part of Film Movement?s Ukrainian Film Collection being released in theaters. These films give us insight into the country and culture that has become such an important part of world...
?Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen.? (Hebrews 11:1, NRSV) Faith in the unseen is the driving force in Yusuke Hirota?s animated film, Poupelle of Chimney Town. It is a faith that seems ridiculous to some and dangerous...
Does passion provide an adequate foundation for how to live a life? In Ana?s in Love, from director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, we watch a young woman who focuses her life around shifting passions that blow through her life. Does it lead to happiness? Will it ever...
?Forgiveness doesn?t heal the wounds of the past; it transforms them.? Lisa Azuelos?s I Love America is structured as a rom-com, but that is really just the pretty clothing put on to attract us to a story of grief and healing. In a sense it is a story of being lost...
Fifty years ago, the goddess of film criticism, Pauline Kael, called Norman Jewison?s Fiddler on the Roof ?the most powerful movie musical ever made.? I wouldn?t dream of disputing that assessment. To be sure, Fiddler is not only among the most powerful musicals, but...
In the Finnish film Hatching, from director Hanna Bergholm, a girl from a seemingly perfect home looks for love in an unusual source, but it leads into a very dark and destructive place. It?s part horror film, part coming-of-age story, and part magical realism. Twelve...