Unconditional – Caring for the caring
According to AARP, 53 million Americans are caregivers for family members dealing with health...
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Don’t Make Me Go – Finding life in death
?Every man dies, not every man truly lives.? That truism has several variations and possible...
Hope – The Possibility of Light in the Darkness
?You don?t have to love me just because I?m dying. But I need to know that you?ll help me.? A...
Running Naked – Days of Vain Life
?Benjamin Taylor is leaving living today.? Sometimes it takes the specter of death to bring light...
Our Friend: From Friend to Family
Based on the Esquire article of the same name, Our Friend recounts the real-life journey...
Ordinary Love – Weathering a Storm
The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing But I can weather the storm! What do I care how much...
Breakthrough S2:E3 (Curing Cancer) – Good From Bad
Maybe CAR-T therapy will be the breakthrough scientists need to eliminate cancer once and for all.
The Hollars – The Comedy of Crises
When birth and death are so near in a film, we should expect that we are being asked to reflect not just on mortality, but on the meaning of all that lies between those two bookends of life.
Honeyglue: A Three Month Love Story
The YA feel of the film comes from the themes that seem to crop up in adolescent stories, such as mortality (it is a time when young people first truly experience the reality of death), freedom and rules, and family and self. All of those themes play out in Morgan and Jordan?s time together, but not always as we think they will.
TIFF Hits: FREEHELD
Set in 2003, Freeheld tells the true story of New Jersey Det. Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) who,...