?You?re the adult, right?? Adulthood is something that Bridget (Kelly O?Sullivan, who wrote the script) hasn?t quite mastered, in spite of her thirty-four years. She?s just kind of drifting along with no great ambition or direction. When she gets a summer job as a...
?How can it be that a white British woman knows more about Mexican cooking that anyone else?? Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is the story of a passion. When a British woman found her way to Mexico in 1957, she discovered a love for the food and the culture. For the past...
?All this will not be finished, but let us begin.? (John F. Kennedy) For nearly 60 years, Americans have volunteered to go to other countries to build communities and form bonds through the Peace Corps. A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps, directed by Alana...
Corridos are Mexican folk ballads. Sometimes those ballads are used to relate history that is deemed important. The Ballad of Esequiel Hern?ndez is essentially a film corrido that recalls the 1997 shooting of an 18 year old high school student on the US-Mexico border...
In Joey Klein?s Castle in the Ground, 19 year old Henry (Alex Wolff) is caring for his dying mother. His new neighbor Ana (Imogen Poots) is often noisy and disruptive. One night he sees a masked man force his way into her apartment. He encounters her one day at the...
If you read my festival coverage, you?ll know that I am a proponent for short films. I enjoy the chance to take in a program or two of shorts when I attend film festivals. Shorts are more than just practice for aspiring filmmakers. Shorts get to the point quickly and...
All of life has been reduced to the inhabitants of a 1001 car long train that continually circles the earth where the outside temperature is -119? C. In TNT?s new drama series Snowpiercer, that train becomes a microcosm for society. The series is based on the 2013...
?I was and remain a man of honor.? Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino) claimed to be an honorable man. But what he meant by that may mean something different than you think. The Traitor is the story of how in the 1980s, he (and some others) began to bring down the...
?A person needs a job to survive, but you need work to feel like you?re worth something.? Working Man, from writer/director Robert Jury, reflects a story that has been playing out in many communities, especially in Middle America. When plants close, putting people out...