“Nobody surfs the first day. Takes a lifetime.” There are lots of things that take a lifetime. But in Gringa, from directors Marny Eng and E. J. Foerster, change in characters’ lives seems to happen almost overnight. That makes for a film that oversimplifies almost everything and never manages to find any depth. Marge (Jess…
Soccer (aka football in the rest of the world) is often called ?the beautiful game?. Next year the world will be watching The World Cup with teams from around the world vying for the quadrennial championship. A less well-known championship is the Clericus Cup, a competition between the seminaries in Rome. The Holy Game, from…
Welcome to the real world. Documentaries take us into the world to show us lives and issues that we might otherwise not know about. AFI Docs is a festival filled with documentaries to challenge us to see the world around us from a new perspective. In the current American political environment, it seems like no…
Remember that time when soccer saved the world? No, seriously. Set after a galactic war took place near the Earth, Cosmoball is a fantasy adventure that tells the story of Anton (Yevgeny Romantsov), a young man who cannot find work as he cares for his sick mother. In a world struck by poverty, the rest of the…
Based on a true story, The Keeper, from director Marcus H Rosenm?ller, is the story of a German POW who in the post-war years becomes one of the most famous football (soccer to Americans) players in England. Along the way the story looks the difficulty of forgiving both our enemies and ourselves. And there?s a…
