?How do you survive the pressure to fit in?? In Best Fake Friends, Joy (Lauren Bowles) has just moved into a tony Portland suburb after her husband has landed a dream job. Without friends, she is growing a bit lonely when she is invited to a neighborhood party. At the...
For Gilly (short for Galadriel) Hopkins (Sophie N?lisse) family has always been a daydream. She has been through a load of foster homes. She has developed an attitude that serves as her armor. No one is going to get close to her. Yet she dreams of her mother coming to...
Does truth even matter anymore? I receive frequent emails from FactCheck.org that looks at the statements made by political candidates and rates their accuracy. It may not come as a surprise that some statements are blatantly false. Is the truth just an annoyance that...
In Milton?s Secret, eleven year old Milton (William Ainscough) seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders. His parents (Mia Kirshner and David Sutcliff) are constantly worried about business and finances. He?s bullied by his neighbor. He describes his life...
If you look up ?curmudgeon? in a Swedish dictionary, you may well find a picture of Ove (Rolf Lassg?rd) from the book and now movie A Man Called Ove. It?s not that Ove is a general misanthrope; it?s just that he can?t stand ?idiots? (especially the white shirt...
Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, we are told in Seed: The Untold Story, 96% of the seed varieties have disappeared. Most of this is the result of changes in agriculture that has promoted high yields and corporate profits over biodiversity. It could be...
In Is That a Gun in Your Pocket, a war between the sexes breaks out in little Rockford, Texas (population 6,969, ?Live Free. Shoot Straight?). This is a town with a strong gun culture. We see the theater marquee for the Rockford Film Festival which is screening Naked...
Operation Avalanche is a mockumentary about a mockumentary dealing with a conspiracy of a hoax. Needless to say, truth is not high on the agenda. In 1967 the CIA suspects that the Soviets have a mole in the NASA space program. A pair of young agents (Matt Johnson and...
The cost of higher education continues to soar. In the past, public universities were often much cheaper, allowing more people to attend because states provided most to the money for the schools. No more. In 1980, such funding peaked in the area of 70%, in 2012 it was...