Pablo Larra?n has started to become known to American filmgoers with stories about Chile?s history and social issues such as No and The Club. (He is soon to become much better known here for directing Jackie.) His latest Chilean focused film is Neruda about the famous...
?When something starts with a six year old dying, nothing?s going to feel right.? Unresolved grief fills and drives Collateral Beauty. The film opens with a joyful Howard (Will Smith) presiding over his ad agency?s Christmas party, reminding his employees that they...
Let?s get it out of the way from the start: The Brand New Testament is a sacrilegious, blasphemous film. But once you get past that, you may discover that this dark comedy speaks to us about finding love and joy in a world that is often defined by death. The key...
?If you?re old enough to go to war, you?re old enough to clean up your mess.? At the end of World War II, the Danish army used German POWs to clear their beaches of over two million landmines the Germans had put there during their occupation. Land of Mine (Denmark?s...
The advent of information technology has made a great many things possible?including crime. In Anonymous? Alex (Callen McAuliffe), a young man who is upset with the bank that fired his mother, sets off to disrupt the system through hacking. He learns of DarkWeb, a...
?I?m too old for radicality.? When the foundations of our lives shift, how do we begin to rebuild? In Mia Hansen-L?ve?s film Things to Come, a middle aged woman faces sudden changes and must set about finding the course she wants for her life. Nathalie (Isabelle...
?Finally the Jewish teams are kicking ass.? Can a sports team be the catalyst that not only unites a nation but also gives it a sense of the nation?s place in the world? On the Map asks us to consider the role the Israeli basketball team Macabbi Tel Aviv had in...
?You cross the line when you don?t treat people with respect. You?re smart enough to know that. You just don?t care.? What an amazing political year this has been! One of the things that have led to the strangeness of this election cycle is a mistrust in the very...
In Lion a child faces perhaps the most frightening of all prosepects?being separated from his family and far from home. That he manages to find a new family in a faraway land may seem like a rescue (and it is), but what of the family he lost? The film is divided into...