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...
Roald Amundsen is probably best known as the polar explorer who beat Robert Scott to the South Pole. Amundsen, a new biopic from Epsen Sandberg, shows us some of his noteworthy expeditions, but also more about Amundsen as a person?and that isn?t always flattering....
Does a nearly forty year old documentary still hold relevance? A newly restored HD version of Dark Circle is streaming on various outlets. The film, directed by Christopher Beaver, Judy Irving, and Ruth Landry, was shortlisted for Oscar consideration in 1983 and won...
?I really can?t take it anymore. You?re not only destroying my body, but my soul.? An actress gets the roll of a lifetime in the Taiwanese film Nana Wu, directed by Midi Z. But while it may be a dream come true, it creates nightmares that she must try to figure out....
?To move forward, you must first remember.? What does it mean to journey home when you have no home? What would The Odyssey have been about if Odysseus had no Penelope waiting for him in Ithaca? Paul Greengrass?s News of the World, based on the best selling...
?I can?t help thinking that somehow if you?d managed to hold on to me, I?d be living a different life right now. I?d be a different person?perhaps the person I was really meant to be?the real me.? The psychological drama Rose Plays Julie, directed by Christine Molloy...
Reuniting with an old friend can be a wonderful time as you catch up on each other?s lives. But it can also be stressful when there are unaddressed issues from years before. All that is multiplied when it is not just an old friend, but a former lover. In Mari Walker?s...
In Selina Miles?s debut feature documentary, Martha: A Picture Story, we enter the world of street art through Martha Cooper, who has been documenting that field for more than forty years. Cooper was in many ways a trailblazer as a working woman photojournalist. Her...
?[It] doesn?t go away. It goes away politically/? Most of us associate Agent Orange with the Vietnam War. The defoliant was used extensively in that war, both to eliminate the cover of jungle and to destroy crops. It also became a major veterans? issue, when many...