It opens in darkness — the beams from headlamp flashlights and sparks of metal on rock our only points of illumination. This is the oppressive environment holdi...
It's the cusp of Eid in Algiers, Bab el Oued circa 2016 and the rams are running wild. Well, not wild per se considering each is bought, sold, and always owned....
It's highly disconcerting yet unsurprising that many Baby Boomers now in their sixties and seventies still see mental illness as a weakness. Talk about the scen...
The thing I could never wrap my head around, religious-wise, is the idea of strict right and wrong. As a Catholic it's somewhat easy as far as sin and repentanc...
Maria Theresia von Paradis was the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa's Court Councilor and thus a young woman of standing despite the blindness that took her ey...
Based on lead actor Adrian Schiop's fictionalized biography, Ivana Mladenovic's Soldiers. Story From Ferentari shows a world of poverty and futility possessing ...
It was always funny to think of Ted Kennedy as "the other Kennedy." How could you not? Despite his long tenure as Massachusetts Senator, he wasn't "anointed" li...
The world doesn't need another film about an irredeemable artist who forsook his wife and child for his art only to begrudgingly (and fearfully through too many...
It starts with a London-based rabbi speaking from his heart about the complexities of life. He stammers through — obviously ailing — until collapse. Suddenly we...
A car slams on its breaks at the pop of a flat. Inside is Todd (Rod Hernandez) and Sara (Alexa Yeames), a young couple toting around a bunch of strangers who pi...