Directed by Ray Yeung, All Shall Be Well tells the story of Angie and Pat (Patra Au and Maggie Li Lin Lin), an elderly couple who have lived together for thirty years in their Hong Kong flat. However, when Pat passes away unexpectedly, Angie discovers that she has no legal claim to their apartment. As Pat’s family…
Beloved children’s performers are experiencing somewhat of a cultural moment over the last few years. With documentaries charting the legacy of Mr. Rogers and Ernie ‘Mr. Dressup’ Coombs (not to mention the Rogers biopic starring Tom Hanks), there have been multiple projects celebrating the impact that these television pioneers have had over the years. Each of these…
When you have the chance to get to the top, you need to decide if it’s worth the cost. In Backspot, Riley (Devery Jacobs) is an up-and-coming cheerleader who dreams of being selected for The Thunderhawks, an elite cheer squad led by the fearless Eileen McNamara (Evan Rachel Wood). When she and her girlfriend finally make…
So my English major side is incredibly bothered by my title here, but the truth is that The Fall Guy may be the most perfect movie to hit theaters in years. In terms of appealing to action fans, romance fans, men, women, conservatives, liberals, even Red Sox and Yankee fans, it checks all of the…
“I think I missed it. … Life.” In Re: Uniting, written and directed by Laura Adkin, a group of best friends come together twenty-five years after college. Their lives have taken them in a variety of directions. They are at a point where they are beginning to questions the choices they have made. It is…
Raising a child can be one of the hardest things to do because they are a reflection of you. This seems to be the anthesis of Ezra directed by Tony Goldwyn as Max (Bobby Canavale), Jenna (Rose Byrne) and Stan (Robert De Niro) all do their best to learn and understand Ezra. Ezra (William A….
Directed by Regan Latimer, Bulletproof: The Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot explores the nature of Queer representation in television. Fueled by animation, clips from the past and present and multiple interviews with televisions insiders and fans, the series steps into the power of media to help us understand and empower who we are. With Bulletproof, Latimer takes…
Sometimes, the best way to share a person’s entire legacy is to focus in on a moment. Set in the late 1970s, Bob Marley: One Love follows Bob Marley (Kingsley Ben-Adir) as he attempts to help his home country of Jamaica during a time of political division. With the develop of Smile Jamaica, a free concert with…
Directed by Colette Johnson-Vosberg, Unusually Normal steps into the lives of ‘Canada’s gayest family’. Consisting of three generations of gay women in the same family, the film invites the Fords to open their home (and their stories) as they explore the meaning of ‘normal’. As they speak about their journeys, Unusually Normal becomes a testament to their resiliency in…
By Catherine Erskine Directed by Pamela Adlon and written by Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, Babes is a no holds barred look at friendship, pregnancy and what keeps people together when their lives are on two very different paths. Eden (Ilana Glazer) plays the single and impulsive best friend to Dawn (Michelle Buteau). Dawn is…
