Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, a western that wasn’t a sequel to?Django Unchained,?focuses in on eight characters of ill repute who find themselves stuck in an isolated cabin in the midst of a snow storm. In true Tarantino fashion, the complexity of the characters will come to the forefront as bullets start flying, and sides are…
Early on in?A Charlie Brown’s Christmas,?Charlie Brown tells both Linus and Lucy that he isn’t feeling the season. Linus (who is generally the source of wisdom in these situations) isn’t terribly receptive to his complaint, but Lucy pushes Charlie toward involvement – after diagnosing him as suffering from?pantophobia. While it’s hard to doubt the genius…
Youth is a meditation on what it means to have grown old. Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Great Silence) says in the production notes, ?The question I asked myself was, how does one look to the future when one is no longer young?? That kind of existential…
Do you know the Moomins? They are the characters in a series of Swedish/Finnish children books and comics dating back to the 1930s that have found their way to scores of languages around the world. Now they come to the big screen in Moomins on the Riviera, a hand-animated film that is very much child-oriented….
?If you put beauty into a place that generally doesn?t have it, that?s a game changer.? Can gardening change people?s lives? That is the question that led Delila Vallot to make Can You Dig This?, a documentary that features urban gardening in some of the must depressed areas of Los Angeles. The idea of guerrilla…
When Benjamin Franklin said, ?In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,? he obviously forgot about aging. Yes, I?m referring to that aspect of life where hair turns gray, wrinkles develop, eyesight begins to fail, and physical strength is diminished. We all will face the effects of aging once…
From the Warner Archive Collection,?Justice League Unlimited?bursts onto televisions everywhere in this fantastic, high definition version. For the first time, the entire series is now available on Blu-ray, featuring the episodes from July 2004 to May 2006 in the series that immediately succeeded?Justice League. With more heroes, more villains, and more team-ups, this is stellar…
You’re seven years old and your entire existence has been contained in a garden shed. You and your mother name each of the elements of your life and they become your friends. Your mother tries to protect you and keep you from danger, but one day, she realizes that she cannot. You do not know…
While it is sometimes easy to dismiss the goofiness of Roger Moore, I am reminded that his twelve-year, seven-film spin as the globe-trotting spy is actually second only to Connery?s in longevity and impact. But in all seriousness, the one-time Saint and Persuader filled the role with a rather campy take on the romantic and…
The Man Who Knew Infinity?is based on the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (Dev Patel), a brilliant young man who grew up poor in Madras, India, during the time of the first World War. Convinced that he has something to offer the world in the area of pure mathematics, Ramanujan sends his work to…
