Raw emotion is the driving force in the documentary The Work. In California?s Folsom State Prison, some of the inmates take part in group therapy to try to rehabilitate themselves. Twice a year, people from outside the prison come to take part in a four-day intensive group therapy experience.
In Junior Bonner, Steve McQueen finds himself playing an over-the-hill rodeo rider, between?Bullitt?and?The Getaway?in 1972. Working with violent Western director Sam Peckinpah, McQueen helps tell a story that is not filled with gun violence, but does tell of a dramatic change in the lives of its characters and the America of the twentieth century. Junior…
Joe Roberts has tried to do right by his family, first working hard on a farm that was foreclosed on and then reluctantly picking up the badge of a small Nebraska town sheriff. Now, as his troubled brother Frank returns to town, Roberts is faced with choices about loyalty to family or adhering to the…
The prequel to?Annabelle,?which is actually part of?The Conjuring?franchise,?Creation?tells the story of how an evil spirit tricks an unsuspecting set of parents into allowing it to inhabit a porcelain doll. Like most sins, this starts out with well-enough intentions and quickly goes south. Directed by David F. Sandberg (behind the phenomenon?Lights Out?and the upcoming?Shazam!?film), Anthony LaPaglia…
Penalty?is a film about futbol (or soccer), played on a sandy beach with incredibly high stakes. In?Aldo Iuliano’s carefully crafted story and direction, the film provides a powerful, emotional punch that will take audiences’ breath away. Here is the story of?Penalty in Iuliano’s own words. What is your background in filmmaking? I started out as…
Hey SF?ers! ?Trying something new so here goes: Marshall w/Chadwick Boseman & Josh Gad: ?They say that the opposite of the White Savior trope in film is the Magical Negro trope. Marshall clearly went full Magical Negro with Josh Gad?s character being the only lawyer allowed to try the case the film centers on. ?A…
I doubt that Dr. Seuss knew the phenomenon he’d create when he penned How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, critiquing the way that Christmas had been co-opted financially and culturally against its meaning. Adapted into the beloved television special in 1966 and created as a live-action manifestation in 2000, the story has a life…
Hail Caesar. Directed again by Matt Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes picking up 2 years after the events of Dawn and shows that the battle between humans and apes has escalated tremendously.? With multiple casualties on both sides, Caesar (Andy Serkis) is determined to free ape-kind from the attacks of the humans?…
Adapted from the graphic novel memoir by Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist Power Paola,?Virus Tropical follows the story of a young girl in Ecuador named Paola, as she grows and matures from infancy to striking out on her own as a young adult. Raised by a mostly single mother, Paola struggles through her relationships with family, friends and…
Directed by expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh,?Tehran Taboo tells the stories of?three strong-willed women who cross paths in Tehran?s divided society where sex, corruption, and drugs coexist with strict religious laws and patriarchal traditions. Through rotoscoping technology, its use of real actors provides genuine depth to the characters yet the animation also provides a safe…
