?I feel that the problem?s really that I just don?t know what kind of Muslim I am. Like there?s Friday prayers and then there?s Friday night and I?m, like, at both. I wanna pray. I wanna go to the party.? The Hulu original series, Ramy, takes us into the world of a...
?We?re not in this world to find answers, but to ask qestions.? Nikolaus Leytner?s The Tobacconist is a tale of looking for love, finding wisdom, and becoming an adult. As with many coming-of-age films there is movement from innocence to facing harsh realities. How...
Open sea. No air cover. U-boats hunting in a pack. 37 merchant marine ships taking supplies and troops to the war in Europe. A handful of destroyers trying to protect the convoy. The man in charge is a first-time captain. Greyhound is primarily an action movie, but it...
Kashmir has been the site of conflict between India and Pakistan since the partition in 1948. Although it is majority Muslim, it is controlled by India. As the conflict has gone on, there have been many who have been arrested (officially or unofficially) and never...
Atom Egoyan is adept at creating cinematic puzzles for us to assemble. We aren?t quite sure what it will all look like when it is complete, but as we piece together the various facts and memories, we discover not necessarily the truth as much as emotional and...
What makes a religion? Do all worldviews have the same validity? How are we to judge? Those are all worthy questions for consideration. I had hopes that I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story would provide some insight to those issues, but in the end I was...
Suzi Quatro is for some a rock and roll icon. She was one of the first women in rock to play bass and be the front person. Before Deborah Harry or Joan Jett (both of whom we hear from), there was Suzi. But at least in North America, her fame is a bit tempered. Suzi Q,...
?It takes some time to learn to like yourself.? Bora Kim?s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama House of Hummingbird takes us inside the struggle of a middle school girl as she keeps looking for something in her life that will bring emotional nurture and...
The life of a refugee is hard. It is even harder when the refugees are LGBTQ persons. In Tom Shepard?s documentary Unsettled, we meet four of these asylum seekers as the begin their time in the US. Subhi is a gay man from Syria, whose life has been threated many times...