?My whole life I searched my body for scars because I knew something was missing.? It can be hard enough being a teenager, but for Ray it is complicated by being transgendered. At the beginning of the film he tells us his birthday wish each year is always the same: to...
When a historian from the year 2592 visits present day New York City, she has a lot to learn. Actually it?s not a planned visit. There was a time traveling accident and she was separated from her group and is alone in this world she has only read about. Tomorrow Ever...
I?ve reached the final day of the Newport Beach Film Festival. I?ve managed to take in a load of films, but there are a whole lot more I could get to. I finished off the week with a romantic thriller hybrid, a story of a police investigation that goes very wrong and...
It?s time to note the top films from the Newport Beach Film Festival. Like other film festivals, NBFF has awards. There are jury awards and audience awards. And, of course I have my favorites as well. We?ll start with my top films. Rather than noting a best of fest,...
My movie choices at Newport Beach Film Festival on Tuesday were stories filled with humanity, love, and compassion. From Ireland came Sanctuary, a film that features actors of the Blue Teapot Theatre Company who have intellectual disabilities. Larry, who has Downs,...
There was a threat of existential angst that ran through the films I saw yesterday at Newport Beach Film Festival. But the films were all very different and approached those questions in different ways. The documentary Courses shows us chef Jake Bickelhaupt, who has...
You?ll note I never give you a preview of what I?ll see the next day when I make my report each day. That is because one never knows what will be sold out leading me to figure out a plan B (or plans B throughout the day). But then that is part of the charm of film...
If I were to note a theme for the day in the pictures I saw at Newport Beach Film Festival on Saturday, it would be finding satisfaction in life. The two films I saw were very different kinds of films, but each had that as a key element. Take My Nose . . . Please is a...
Religion can be a beautiful thing. It can also be very dangerous. In The Student, we see how someone can misuse religion in destructive ways. It may be all the harder for some of us to watch because it is Christianity that is made into something ugly. Venya, a Russian...