Becoming a successful singer-songwriter is not an easy gig. There’s so much competition and it takes connections in order to be discovered, and even then it might be difficult to truly arrive at the right time with the sound and look that those with money and access want to see. Most people just starting their…
People stay in bad marriages for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is children, but there can also be hope that things will return to the honeymoon period that started the romance and has now become a distant memory. Magpie introduces its protagonist when there’s nothing resembling love left in her marriage, and the…
©Courtesy of Neon Hail to Mario Bava! Long live Lucio Fulci! After Quentin Tarantino declaring his love for their movies in every possible way, and James Wan and Edgar Wright recently paid their personal tribute to the glorious season of Italian horror B-movies with Malignant and Last Night in Soho, the upcoming Immaculate starred (and…
Speaking out about sexual assault is a difficult process, in part because people don’t always believe accusations. Having to stand up to someone in a position of power with considerably more resources makes it even harder. Yet there are those who know that they must act to prevent others from suffering similar fates, and that…
It’s hard to imagine the feeling of jumping off a cliff and just letting the wind carry you. Fly, from National Geographic Documentary Films, brings audiences as close as possible to no longer needing to imagine and just getting to experience it. In its opening moments, two people leap off a ledge and are indeed…
©Carlos Rodriguez/Lionsagte If an Oscar category is ever created for an outstanding performance by a non-human animal, I nominate Arthur, the lovable canine who co-stars in this inspirational film about loyalty, endurance, and dogged persistence in the face of incredible odds. Lionsgate’s Arthur the King is directed by Simon Cellan Jones from a screenplay by…
There are few public personalities alive today who seem to relish being despised as much as Alex Jones. The longtime host of InfoWars, a news program that wholeheartedly embraces fringe conspiracy theories as irrefutable truth, believes that he is doing the public a great service by sharing all the things he believes to be wrong…
Directed by emerging filmmaker Haley Elizabeth Anderson and starring Kota Johan in her feature-film debut, Tendaberry is a gritty but touching drama about a young woman’s determination to survive and thrive amidst hostile surroundings. It is impossible not to like Dakota, the twentysomething woman at the heart of this captivating coming-of-age narrative about a life…
It’s hard to know what’s true anymore. Universal access to information has not always been the gift it should have been, since it’s possible for an image or video that’s either entirely false or simply miscaptioned to reach millions of eyes and ears in a matter of seconds before any correction can be made. Perhaps…
Not everyone is meant to be a parent. Children, on the other hand, don’t have any choice in the matter, and there can be very toxic relationships and dynamics that develop when a parent makes their child feel as if they owe them something for all they had to give up in order to raise…
Debuting this week as part of the New Look showcase at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, Samsara is an impressive new film by Spanish director Lois Patiño. As I watched it, I could not help but think of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Crossing the Bar” with its depiction of death as a passage…
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