Children and teenagers are capable of an unfortunate cruelty to each other that is in most cases learned from watching other people, be it adults in their lives or characters on television or in film. The need to ostracize those who feel different can have immeasurably detrimental effects and lead to tragic consequences. Even in…
There are some stories that have become immortalized in time, made famous by a particular adaptation but remade numerous times nonetheless. The 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi was the inspiration for the 1940 animated film that won two Oscars, for its score and for the now-classic song “When You Wish Upon…
Though they may have been panned by critics upon release, the post Star Wars Lucas Films productions of Howard the Duck and Willow meant a lot to children of the 80’s, like me. If something new was out to rent at the video store, I’d tell my parents to rent Willow, again. When it came…
In the late 1920s, English author D. H. Lawrence published his last novel that caused immense scandal: Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The plot about an unhappily married aristocrat beginning a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband’s country estate, caused consternation. At that time it was unthinkable for a woman of the intelligentsia, who had…
Poland’s entry for Best International Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards is a wondrous work of cinematic art. EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. The film is inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, that was inspired by an extract from…
When Louis Armstrong died in 1971, newscaster Walter Cronkite proclaimed, “We aren’t saying goodbye to Louis tonight, because a man’s music does not die with him, certainly not this man’s.” Armstrong was enormously influential and it’s difficult to find another musician who has left such an enduring mark on the industry and the world in…
Refusing to live up to anyone else’s standards is a perfect guide to become a meaningful and memorable leader. Jenna Ortega is proving just that with her unique portrayal of Wednesday Addams, the iconic anti-heroine from the celebrate Addams Family franchise. The actress stepped into the role of the titular independent protagonist for the new…
“There is a birthplace and there is a home place”. The words from Reverend Norvel Goff Sr opens the documentary “After Sherman”. It is also the core of what is to follow. We are where we come from, but we become where we are. Wherever home is now, the past is always present. For the…
Some of the most honorable people in the world are those who are so loyal to the people of their country that they’re willing to put their own safety into jeopardy. That was certainly the case for the first African-American elite fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, Jesse Brown, who served during the Korean War….
Fifteen years ago, Amy Adams starred as Giselle, a woman transplanted from an animated fairytale world into live-action New York City in Enchanted. Much has changed in the time since then, even just for Adams and for the studio that made the film. Adams has earned five additional Oscar nominations and regularly gets top billing…
The pioneer of New German Cinema ventures into the intricate realms of the mind. Werner Herzog, who recently turned 80 is receiving DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and at that same festival is presenting his latest work, Theater Of Thought. The documentary explores the various scientific facets of the human brain, from artificial intelligence to…
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