2023 Oscar? Nominated Animated Shorts
Each year there are Oscars? awarded in three categories of short films: Live Action Shorts,...
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The Phantom of the Open – Losing with style
?No one can say you didn?t try.? I?m not a fan of watching or playing golf, but I am in awe of...
This Year’s Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Short films can be good training for future filmmakers, or they can be an artform in themselves....
Running Naked – Days of Vain Life
?Benjamin Taylor is leaving living today.? Sometimes it takes the specter of death to bring light...
Hurt by Paradise – Life in the Tone of Melancholy
Life is often about chasing after dreams. But is the chase itself enough to make for a complete...
Reporting from Slamdance – Narrative Features (Part 1)
I want to use this report to touch on a few of the films that are part of the Narrative Feature...
Small Axe – West Indian Joys and Pain
Some stories and the worlds they bring to us are too big for a single film. Sometimes that means...
Mangrove – Demanding Justice
?We must become the shepherd of our own destinies? Mangrove, the opening film of Steve McQueen?s...
The Keeper -Finding Forgiveness
Based on a true story, The Keeper, from director Marcus H Rosenm?ller, is the story of a German...
Sorry We Missed You: When the Work Ethic Doesn’t Work
?I?ve got to go to work. I have not got a choice.? We are told that if we work hard, we will find...
Oscar-Nominated Short Documentaries
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and...
The Escape – Wife and Mother Want Out
The ambivalence the film creates in the viewer may provide us room to think differently about the way women fulfill the roles that they have been assigned. It may also give us a bit more sympathy for those who make choices we may not approve of.
Finding Your Feet – Never Too Late for a New Beginning
On the surface, this looks like a date night movie for the Leisure World set. But the wisdom the film imparts can be absorbed by people of any age.