?Haven?t I got the right to be happy?? In Teona Strugar Mitevska?s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, tradition and modernity come into conflict. We watch as a woman must find her own value when everyone around her sees her as worthless. The church, the community, the police and even her mother all seem to…
These days it seems that just about every conversation will work its way around to politics. Whether you?re talking to a beloved family member, long-term friend or Internet stranger, our current political climate has so permeated our day-to-day that most of us don?t even realize what we?re talking about until we abruptly come to the…
First, Liam Neeson changed the course of his career with?Taken. Then, Reeves found his gun-fu again in?John Wick. Now,?Nobody?introduces us to another ex-special ops man trying to move on with his life has risen to protect? well? suburbia. Nobody introduces the world to Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk), a middle-aged man trapped in a cycle of routine….
From 1996 to 1997, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale delivered a thirteen-issue Batman story of epic proportions. Continuing the story timeline of Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween found Batman forming an alliance with Captain James Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, in pursuit of a killer who only dispatched some of Gotham’s top baddies…
There are situations that fill a parent’s heart with dread. Their child is missing. Their child is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Their child completely rejects them. In the case of Your Honor, there is one more: their child does something criminal, evil even, and choices must be made about how to protect them. Bryan…
For nine seasons, Gary Sinise’s Marine-turned-Detective Mac Taylor led a series of investigators blending deductive reasoning, criminal profiling, and forensic evidence examination to stop evildoers on the mean, gritty streets of New York in CSI: NY. The second spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NY spun off of a crossover event featuring CSI: Miami’s Horatio…
One of the strangest books that I?ve had the opportunity to read involved a seaside town, romance, swashbuckling feats, and unique creatures not indigenous to the local population. It was also a parody.? Entitled Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben Winters, it?s exactly what Jane Austen would?ve penned at her desk if she…
Taking place during the Thatcher era in Britain,?Censor?follows Enid (Niamh Algar), a film censor who suffered a traumatic event in her youth with the disappearance of her sister. Having tried to put the events of her childhood behind her, she spends her days pouring over graphic horror films (or ‘video nastys’) in an attempt to…
We live in a world of so much connectedness, yet how connected are we to one another? In Magnus von Horn?s Sweat, we see how alone we can be in the midst of masses. We see that celebrity is not the same of a happy, healthy life. We see that what we see of someone…
?There it is. Take it.? (William Mulholland, opening the gates to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1913) Water is a big deal here in California. It is not just about the presence or lack of rain (although that is important). For over 100 years, huge amounts of water have been diverted from the Central Valley and…
