Dementia can be a nightmare for families. It?s not just watching a loved one becoming lost as their memory deteriorates. It requires making hard choices that can put family members at odds with each other. What They Had is a look inside a family that is struggling to deal with a wife and mother as…
In 2014 ISIS declared that the Yazidis (a religious minority in northern Iraq) should be eliminated. They set out on a genocidal spree in which over 5000 people were killed in a few weeks and over 7000 women and children were captured and forced into sexual slavery and child soldiering.
“The story you’re about to hear is true.” Thus begins the spiritual lovechild of?Dragnet. In 1987, Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks ‘updated’ the legendary tone of the television show that ran from 1951-59 and 1967-70, formed around the story which Jack Webb created, produced, and starred in for so many years. Ackroyd plays the singular,…
Directed by Aaron Wolf, Restoring Tomorrowtells a universal story of hope as a beloved local temple in decay is revitalized through a community’s commitment to recover their history. Wolf follows the journey of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a Los Angeles treasure built by the original Hollywood moguls, that needs to raise millions in order to?restore?its…
Two women, Angie (Alexandra Boylan) and Taylor (Helenna Santos) head out into the desert to win big: their publicity team could win a major client if they successfully complete the geocacheing treasure hunt. But there’s a problem: the rules keep changing and they’re quickly lost and out of water. In this thriller from director John…
White Boy Rick takes place in a lower-middle class neighbourhood in 1980’s Detroit where urban decay, a budding crime scene and a nearly uncontrollable drug problem set the tone.?Products of their environment, the community seemed to do what was necessary to survive in this rough town, and that often meant getting involved in criminal activity….
Written and directed by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, Dheepan),?The Sisters Brothers?tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly), two contract killers in mid-19thCentury America. Here, Charlie and Eli are teamed with detective John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) to find and kill the humble prospector Hermann Warm (Riz Ahmed). However,…
The Gifted?fits into the overall X-Men universe from the Marvel Comics and Fox films, but allows the audience to see a smaller more intimate view of what it would look like for a family to discover their gifts for the first time. Reed Strucker (Stephen Moyer) works for Sentinel Services, but when his children, Lauren…
Morning, Noon? & Night seeks to be a mirror through which we see the way addiction controls lives. It tries to do so with humor, but in the end it merely ridicules addicts as losers without giving us any real insight to addiction. The film is three interconnected stories (along with some peripheral characters who…
There are some stories that are so universal, so timeless, that they span horizons and bind generations together with one another. Louisa May Alcott?s classic Little Women is one such story. No matter where or when you grew up, whether you had sisters or brothers, there is much to own in the story of the…
