Never mind politics, economics is where you may find really strange bedfellows. In the Italian film Beate (which translates to ?Blessed?), from Samad Zarmandili, two very different groups of women join forces to try to stave off the greed around them. The first group...
?You don?t have to love me just because I?m dying. But I need to know that you?ll help me.? A diagnosis of terminal cancer inevitably brings upheaval and stress into any family. Hope, Norway?s official Oscar Submission for Best International Feature Film (it made the...
?We?re making liquid art.? When I got the invitation to screen Christo Brock?s Brewmance, I thought of passing, not because I don?t like beer, but because I?ve seen docs about craft brewing before. They usually lead me to try something new, but I kind of prefer to...
?I can fix you.? My True Fairy opens with a voice over spoken by Angie Goodwin (Emma Kennedy) in which she tells of her childhood dream of becoming a superhero with the ability to be fly and to be invisible. She would then save the world. As a teen, she still holds on...
?It?s the first right thing I do for him, and it?s the last.? Doing the right thing is central to Aoife Crehan?s premier feature film The Last Right. But right for whom? And how do we judge the right among multiple values that all have a claim as right? Daniel Murphy...
?Benjamin Taylor is leaving living today.? Sometimes it takes the specter of death to bring light into life. Running Naked, from director Victor Buhler, is a feel-good dramedy that helps us see the beauty in life, even if we know that life is finite. Perhaps that...
Life is often about chasing after dreams. But is the chase itself enough to make for a complete life? In Greta Bellamacina?s Hurt by Paradise, we watch two women who are chasing after dreams that are probably beyond their grasps. Should we see this as a celebration or...
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar? presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of...
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar? presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of...