?Where do they go? The people, when you change them?? It?s difficult to put The Mountain from writer director Rick Alverson into a familiar category. Drama doesn?t seem to say quite enough. It borders at times on surrealism, but there is also a strong sense of reality...
The emotional ghosts of the past are the driving force of the melodramatic The Price for Silence. Our first images of protagonist Kira Flynn (Lynn Mancinelli) make it clear that she is suffering PTSD centered in the emotional wounds of rape. It is not just her...
Often when we grow up, we look back at our parents? lives and think that we can do things better than they did. Sometimes we are right, but not always. New technologies lead to different ways of telling stories. My parents listened to radio. I had TV. My sons had...
After nine years, the beloved Disney-Pixar Toy Story franchise continues in Toy Story 4. It brings back the characters that we have enjoyed and even loved in the previous films. For that reason alone, I?m sure that many people will be enthralled with the newest part...
How can young Israelis decide to move to Germany or Austria, given the historical issues Jews faced there? Back to the Fatherland gives us a look at a few of those young people?and their grandparents?to try to find some insight into the possibility to finding a future...
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Wayne Roberts, the writer and director of Katie Says Goodbye. The film was one of my favorites at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival where it won awards for best Actress (Olivia Cooke) and Best Screenplay. It is now in...
A stranger with a middle-eastern look about him comes up and offers you a free trip to Egypt. What would you be concerned about? Would you take them up on it? Tarek Mounib, born in Canada of Egyptian parents, now living in Switzerland, went to Trump rallies, stood in...
?Thank you for this day, Daddy. I hope I lived right and if I see you one day that I make you proud.? I first saw Katie Says Goodbye at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival, where I ranked it among my favorites. The film won jury awards for Best Actress (Olivia Cooke)...
Blythe Danner and John Lithgow appear in The Tomorrow Man by Noble Jones. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says, ?Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for...