?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....
There?s a new Western in town: The Ballad of Lefty Brown. Once upon a time Westerns were a staple of the movie industry. Now when one comes out they create a bit of nostalgia. As a genre Westerns focused on the mythology of America?especially freedom and hard work...
?There was nothing extraordinary about my Mum and Dad. Nothing dramatic. . .. But they were my parents and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book.? British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs told his parent?s very ordinary story in a graphic novel, Ethel...
What Will People Say was one of my favorite films at AFIFest this year. I wasn?t alone in my estimation of the work; it also won the Audience Award in the New Auteurs section. It is a powerful and engaging film in which two different value systems collide within the...
?That?s how we?re going to win. Not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.? Okay, so millions of people are going to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the newest installment of the Skywalker saga. They will go for many reasons: They?ve been following this...
?I was loved for a minute, then I was hated.? Figure skating is all about elegance and grace. So when in 1994 the sport took on a violent aspect with an attack on a top skater before the Olympics, it became one of the early examples of TV tabloid journalism. I, Tonya...