“Your life is full of love, whether you recognize it or not.” – Andrea Moodie (Writer/Director, 52 Words for Love) 52 Words of Love tells the story of Alice, a young woman dying of cancer to launches the titular website, in which she posts a new synonym for love each week for a year. As the site gradually… [Read More]
The Isle – Creepiness Is Not Enough
“This is a dead isle. We’re only here because we have no choice.” In The Isle, three seamen survive an unexplainable shipwreck. They find themselves in a rowboat in thick fog. When the fog begins to lift, they see an island and make their way to it. They find that there are only four people… [Read More]
The Golem – Savior or Destroyer?
“When a man tries to play God, the darkness awakens.” Based in Jewish folklore, The Golem is a tale of looking for a savior, but finding instead destruction. Set in seventeenth century Lithuania, a Jewish village is under attack by local Gentiles who blame the Jews for a plague that is killing people. How should… [Read More]
Don’t Come Back from the Moon – A World of Emptiness
An optimist sees a glass as half full; a pessimist sees it as half empty. A nihilist will dump the water from the glass and marvel at the emptiness. Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon is a study of such emptiness.
The House With a Clock in Its Walls: The Magic of Healing
Ten-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious `tick tock’ noise. He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) and his feisty neighbour, Mrs Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), are formidable magicians. When Lewis accidentally resurrects a deceased enemy, the town’s sleepy facade suddenly springs… [Read More]
Santa Claus (Le Père Noël) – A Parisian Adventure
‘Tis the season of heartwarming holiday movies featuring cute kids, Santa Claus, and the joy of the season.
Backtrace – Memory and Loss
There are a couple of twists that take place, neither terribly earthshattering. So the story plays out as an action thriller with very little credibility.
Jinn – Coming of Age and Coming to Faith
Teenage years can be a difficult time as one tries establish an identity. But what happens when religion is suddenly put into the mix? In Jinn, a young woman must learn how to fit Islam into her life and determine how to adapt herself to a new way of seeing things.
A Dangerous Idea – Social Darwinism vs. The American Dream
The American Dream is that there are no limits to what someone can be. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [sic] are created equal….” But does science, especially genetics, put that into doubt or even undermine it? A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream takes a look at the… [Read More]
Losing Marriage’s Fairytale: 1on1 with Cat Rhinehart (BRAND NEW OLD LOVE)
Written and directed by Cat Rhinehart, Brand New Old Love tells the story of Charlie (Arturo Castro) and Hannah (Aya Cash), two former high school friends who decide to make good on a promise they made to one another to get married if they were both single at age 30. Despite the fact that they… [Read More]
