In Lindsay Gossling?s 13 Minutes, a natural catastrophe brings devastation to a community. But this isn?t your typical disaster movie that brings the survivors together to return to the way things were. Rather, this is really about the personal catastrophes that were...
?My baby?s life matters.? Unless we choose willful ignorance, we should all know that Black people in America have faced violence for a very long time. Sometimes that has happened at the hands of police. Sometimes it has happened in lynchings. But we need to remember...
?Without a boat you lose your way.? Is it possible to live in a rapidly changing world and stay true to the past? If we start giving up bits of our heritage, will there be anything left of it? Traditional ways of life compete with modernity in Alex Camilleri?s Luzzu....
?I want to see America be what she says she is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. America, be what you proclaim yourself to be!? When filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West were making the Oscar-nominated RGB, they came across a citation that...
Three Rules of Life: Never play cards with a guy named Doc.Never eat at a restaurant called Mom?sNever sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Nelson Algren was one of the key writers of Post-World War II America. His writing was as plain-spoken as...
?Try not to run away from stuff that isn?t there.? Hudson, the first feature film from Sean Daniel Cunningham, received a fair number of awards from film festivals. It is certainly the kind of film that festival audiences like to find?a sweet, feel good story from a...
Paul Schrader?s The Card Counter is the story of a solitary man hiding from the world. Or more precisely, a man hiding from the sin and guilt that he carries with him. ?William Tell? (Oscar Isaac) plays cards for a living. He?s very good at it. He knows...
Last Night in Rozzie, from director Sean Gannet, opens with a chaotic memory of an event that happened in 1994. We can?t really tell what?s happening, but slowly we learn what happened that night and the effect it had on the two boys involved?and the ripples it...
We may think that a love story is a love story. They meet. They clash. They become friends. They fall out. They reconcile. Life is beautiful. Those are the typical beats in such a story. They are all there in 23 Walks, written and directed by Paul Morrison, but it all...