What are parents to do when they need to work long shifts or multiple jobs? Through the Night by documentary director Loira Limbal takes us into a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. There Deloris (Nunu) Hogan and her husband Patrick care day and night for several children up to 12 years old….
Disney?s new film ?Safety? is an autobiography on real-life NCAA player Ray McElrathbey (Jay Reeves), a struggling student on a football scholarship at Clemson University who must try to balance his life between school, work, football practice, and taking care of his younger brother. With their mother in rehab, Ray fights to persevere through the…
?An eye for an eye is very costly. It?s not easy at all.? Many religions speak about forgiveness. It may be about the way we have been forgiven, or it may focus on our need to forgive others. In Yalda, A Night of Forgiveness from Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi, the process of forgiveness is the…
?We don?t even know each other anymore?or ourselves.? Among the sacrifices many immigrants face is long separation from the people they love. In Ekwu Msangi?s Farewell Amor, a family is reunited in the US after many years apart. There are cultural differences for those coming now, but even more, there is a struggle to see…
?Do you think we believe what we want?? ?It may be the other way around; we believe things whether we want to or not.? Theo Love?s true crime doc Alabama Snake is a search for truth amidst conflicting accounts. Finding the truth may rest more on what we believe and what we believe about the…
Twenty-two years ago, Wesley Snipes was on top of the world. The first successful Marvel film – sure, there was Howard the Duck and a few direct-to-video films – Blade provided the world with a black hero, and the first in a line of reasonably successful films (c’mon, they’ve taken the world by storm). Based…
J.R.R. Tolkien never imagined that his work would ever be made into moving pictures and played in spectacular visual faction thanks to the extraordinary vision of director Peter Jackson. But from 2001 (The Fellowship of the Ring) to 2014 (The Battle of the Five Armies), the director delivered a strong take on the goings-on of…
In the dramatic prequel based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s books (and the Raymond Burr television series), Matthew Rhys (The Americans) plays Perry Mason pre-law days. He’s a sad-sack private eye in 1932 Los Angeles, dealing with his PTSD after the war and divorce, suffering through the Great Depression like everyone else. He’s rumpled, depressed, and…
Within the first 15 minutes of Yes, God, Yes, I wanted to shut down the computer. I was so angry I could have punched something. I was overwhelmed by a myriad of emotions flooding my senses quickly. Don’t worry. I?m going to explain why in a moment.? Originally a short film in 2017, this full-length…
At a time when everyone is looking for answers, it can be frustrating when you don?t get the ones you?re looking for. Thankfully, 76 Days is a reminder that we may be asking the wrong questions. Directed by the team of Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous, 76 Days captures the madness surrounding the onset of this year?s global…
