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The 4:30 Movie: Kevin Smith’s Clunky Coming-of-Age Film

© A Saban Films release. Photo courtesy of Ralph Bavaro. As The 4:30 Movie opens, a teenaged boy is seen trying to arrange a date by calling his female inamorata on a clunky push-button landline. It is the summer of 1986, that antediluvian era before cellphones and social media had become the instruments of choice for…

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, A Story About The Quest For Connection

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 is a documentary written and directed by Joshua Zeman, where the award-winning filmmaker becomes a contemporary Captain Ahab, seeking his own whale. His Moby Dick is the “52 Hertz Whale,” which scientists believe has spent his entire life in solitude, calling out at a frequency that is different…