Selected for the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, The Fare is a chilling story of human trafficking starring Johnny Ortiz (American Crime) and Noemi Pedraza. Written and directed by Santiago Palandine, the film tells of a young Ecuadorian teenager ensnared in a sex trafficking organization, who finds himself ordered to transport a fourteen-year-old girl from his…
In?Snatched, Amy Schumer’s Emily Louise Middleton gets fired from her job (which she’s terrible at) and dumped by her boyfriend (which she tries to play off as her own decision). She returns home, licking her wounds, to the delight of her brother (Ike Barinholtz) and the sorrow of her mother, Linda (Goldie Hawn). With two…
?Modernity is killing me.? The 1960s were a time of momentous change. We remember much of the social upheaval, but we often forget what major shifts happened in the church. As a bishop says in The Passion of Augustine, ?Everything is moving too fast. Modernism is attacking us on all fronts: Vatican II, loss of…
Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) can’t go outside. It’s not some kind of violent, Leatherface/Misery?mashup. Her mother just won’t let her, because her mother says her extreme immuno-deficiency disease prevents her from exploring the outside world without fear. When Olly Bright (Nick Robinson) moves in next door, a slow-burning relationship begins to build and Maddy’s safety within…
When I first talked to Remi Adeleke, he was just days away from his first box office action film,?Transformers: Last Knight. Having survived the Bronx as a young man, and the Navy Seals as a young adult, monstrous CGI robots were hardly enough to intimidate him. But to understand who Adeleke was, and to marvel…
We’re not alone. We’re never alone. Have faith.– The Novice Forced to travel on a holy pilgrimage from the only home he’s ever known, The Novice (Tom Holland,?Spiderman: Homecoming) leaves his Irish Catholic monastery with a few other priests to deliver a relic to Rome for the efforts of the Crusade. Along with the Mute…
Guy Ritchie famously reinvented Arthur Conan Doyle’s?Sherlock Holmes?with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, while also updating?The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?(with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer). But I fear that he has gone too far in the tearing down of the Arthurian legend, rebuilding it in his own?Rocknrolla?image. Instead of just tweaking the?style?of King Arthur, Ritchie…
Christopher Plummer is quite dapper as exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II, under investigation by the Nazi Reich’s Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney). Brandt has his own disgraces to deal with – having been forced into this ‘undercover’ assignment. But instead of uncovering who the British spy is in the Wihelm estate, he falls for a maid, Mieke…
Have you ever had a conversation with someone and knew they weren’t really listening? Better yet, was it someone who you knew you should be talking to about something important? In?The Dinner, four people, two couples, are talking but no one is really engaging the others in meaningful dialogue. In Oren Moverman’s adaptation of the…
Heather White Heather and Face2Face host David Peck talk about greed, activism and sweatshops and her new film Complicit and why consumers have so much power when it comes to making a difference. IMDB TIFF More here on the website about the campaign and film. Synopsis: The documentary follows the intimate journey of…
