The Erwin Brothers have delivered the real life stories Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine, and I Still Believe, with American Underdog about to debut with the story of Kurt Warner’s unlikely rise from grocery store stocker to NFL MVP. But during the pandemic, they recorded interviews with leading Contemporary Christian Music artists to detail the…
Blanco en Blanco, Chile?s submission for Best Foreign Film Oscar consideration, takes us into the cold, dark, empty environment of Tierra del Fuego at the turn of the 20th century. Director Th?o Court creates a world in which the land and the people share a soul-numbing desolation. The film centers on Pedro, a photographer, who…
When I heard that a new West Side Story was due to premiere, I was sceptical. Did I really want to see a remake of one of my favourite movies? When I heard that Steven Spielberg was directing, and that he had wanted to make this movie for over 30 years, I was intrigued. When 91 year old Stephen Sondheim died in late November, seeing…
Sometimes, the best place to be born again is when you?re in the middle of life. Starring the late Kelly Preston, Off the Rails tells the story of four women to lose a piece of themselves when their friend Anna passes away. Having always dreamed of taking a trip to Italy together, Anna?s dying wish is that…
Baby Don?t Cry tells the story of Baby (Zita Bai), a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant struggling to survive. Living with her cruel mother and doing menial tasks to pay the bills after school, Baby simply doesn?t seem to fit in. When she meets drug-dealing dropout Fox (Vas Provatakis), her life begins to change. Drawn to his rough…
There?s something about the holidays that invites Christmas romances. Whether it?s the warm feelings of family, hope or just the egg nog talking, the ?Christmas movie? has become a time-honoured tradition. Now, with It Takes a Christmas Village, we are introduced to mayor Alex Foster (Brooke Nevin) as she attempts to prevent some inconvenient construction from…
There are many types of ?souvenirs? that a traumatic relationship can leave on the soul. However, sometimes, those moments of pain can help us uncover truths about ourselves that we never saw before. As the follow-up to her masterful 2019 film The Souvenir, The Souvenir Part II picks up in the aftermath of film student Julie?s (Honor Swinton…
?And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.? (Gen. 4:8 NRSV) It is worth remembering that humankind?s first murder was a family affair. Ridley Scott?s House of Gucci is the newest way of telling the story of a family that destroys itself because of the greed,…
In some ways Betrayed, from director Erik Svensson is like many other films about the Holocaust. It tells the story of the deportation of Jews from Norway in 1942. (Actually, we start three years earlier, in more normal times.) But this film doesn?t quite follow the pattern of other Holocaust films, which gives it a…
Why do people (now a few thousand) climb Mt. Everest? George Mallory (who may or may not have been the first to reach the summit) famously answered the question by saying, ?Because it?s there.? But there has to be more to it than that. Mountaineering is a dangerous, often lethal, activity. In The Summit of…
