?When we lay our heads down out here, we?re all prisoners.? In Scott Cooper?s new western Hostiles, the cowboy-and-Indian genre is used to consider the power that prejudices hold over us. But it also gives a glimpse of the possibility of reconciliation that can...
It?s time to come up with my favorite films of 2017. As usual, I expect I?ll name things you?ve never heard of (except from my reviews), and unless you live in a town with a good art house may never have been able to see. (One you would have needed to see at a...
?In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the...
?This isn?t a hospital; it?s an insane asylum!? I was in college, of prime draft age, when M*A*S*H hit the theaters in 1970. That probably says a lot about what I found so appealing about that film when I first saw it. It also explains why when it played at AFI Fest...
?Everything has a price. The real struggle in life is to determine what that is.? How do you determine the price of the important things in life? That question lies in the background all through All the Money in the World. ?Inspired by true events?, it is a thriller...
?Decency is an export. We sell it because we don?t use it.? Guillermo del Toro?s films are sometimes referred to as fairy tales, fables, or parables, but always much darker than we usually think of such things. Those characterizations are not just because of...
?To make yourself feel nothing so you don?t feel anything. What a waste.? Coming-of-age stories are often about discovery as characters emerge from childhood. They often harken back to the story of Eden, as Adam and Eve eat forbidden fruit and their eyes are opened to...
?They?ll get their punishment. I promise you.? Justice. Revenge. Are they the same? Are they even related? In the Fade from Fatih Akin is the story of a search for justice, and what happens when that justice is denied. In the Fade is Germany?s official Oscar entry for...
?You can?t blend in when you were born to stand out.? What a frightening thing the first day of school can be?especially when you?ve been home schooled your whole life because you have a deformity that cannot be hidden. Wonder is a story of outcast and friendship....