?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...
Every country (except the U.S.) can submit one film for Oscar consideration for Best International Feature Film. How a country makes that choice varies. There are certain criteria, including how much English is allowed. The Academy has a process through which the...
Now that the 2021 version of the Slamdance Film Festival is over, it is time to look back at some of the best films that played at the festival. The festival included 25 feature films and 107 shorts. Of course, the festival this year was almost completely virtual (the...
A few more films as I wind down my coverage of Slamdance Film Festival. It has been a wonderful experience, as most film festivals are. In Jim Bernfield?s documentary feature Me to Play, Dan Moran and Chris Jones, two actors with Parkinson?s Disease, set out to...
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s, I was well aware of the Olympic Auditorium. That was where they held wrestling, roller derby, and boxing that came into our homes on local TV. Later it was the scene of punk rock shows. In the years since, I?ve driven by...
The opioid epidemic is the setting for Nicholas Jarecki?s Crisis. The film looks at the issue from different angles by using three storylines (two of which converge) that allow the film to explore the pain caused by this problem as well as ethical and law enforcement...