?I don?t know whether this will be great or terrible.? Sometimes we are fascinated by a story. But then there is the story that makes the story even more amazing. That is the case with Three Identical Strangers. It begins as a human interest story that captured a good...
Path of Blood is an opportunity to meet a few Islamic terrorists. Yeah, not the people I look forward to meeting either, but this documentary from Jonathan Hacker gives us a chance to meet some of those in Al Qaeda and we may be surprised at what we see. The film is...
Custody is a moving look at the pain that can come from a family disintegration?especially as that pain manifests in a child. Mariam (L?a Drucker) and Antoine (Denis M?nochet) are divorcing. The key issue to be decided is the custody arrangement for their son Julien...
?Love and survival are all I want.? ?You?re not exclusive in that notion.? In Damsel, the Zellner Brothers play with some typical movie genres. As a result, viewers are asked to wrap their minds around things that seem to not quite fit together, but in reality make...
Road trips movies are inevitably about the forces that pull us apart and/or draw us together. Boundaries, from writer-director Shana Feste, uses this vehicle to look at three generations of a family in need of both distance and reunion. Laura (Vera Farminga) has a...
When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1454, it ushered in a new era for spreading knowledge. The basic idea of type, ink, and paper coming together to make books, newspapers, posters remained the same (with small variations and improvements) for...
Incredibles 2 continues the story of the Parr family from The Incredibles. While it is ostensibly a superhero story, at its heart this is a film about family and especially about parenting as children go through all the changes of growing up. As in the original,...
?This is what you?d like to see in nature.? Gardens bring us pleasure, even if we have to work to keep them beautiful. Gardens bring a bit of nature close to us, even if it is in an artificial setting. But Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf seeks to make gardens...
?Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.? A Midsummer Night?s Dream is one of the most performed of Shakespeare?s plays. I?ve certainly seen it frequently both on stage and on film. Each production has its own unique vision of how...