Four friends, all high school teachers, evaluate the hypothesis that keeping a steady amount of alcohol in their blood would benefit their lives. According to one theory, man is born with half a per mille deficiency. The presence of alcohol in the blood opens the mind to the outside world, making issues seem smaller and … Read more
This film of Robert Zemeckis’ is visually groundbreaking, tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming story of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his grandmother in Alabama town. The grandmother wisely whisks the boy away to a beach resort, When the boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively beautiful … Read more
The horrific and contentious case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for the murder of his three children after scientific proof and expert testimony proving his innocence was suppressed. Trial By Fire aspires to be different. Cameron Todd Willingham, a ‘white trash’ Texan, and his wife, Stacy, are the central characters in … Read more
A coming-of-age story about Alfred “Boogie” Chin, a basketball prodigy from Queens, New York, who aspires to play in the NBA one day. Boogie Chin wants to play in the NBA, but his unstable family gets in the way, pushing him to handle a new girlfriend, family expectations, and his own ambition. A great movie … Read more
From the end of WWII to the 1960s, The Devil All the Time is set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia and follows a cast of convincing and surreal characters. There’s Willard Russell, a tormented survivor of the South Pacific carnage who, no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log,” … Read more
A shy 16-year-old, fed up with her high school’s sexist and toxic status quo, draws inspiration from her mother’s revolutionary history and secretly publishes a zine that sparks a school-wide coming-of-age movement. This is a contentious film. Even if the images of angst-ridden young women coming to their own understanding of feminism are immature and … Read more
Jacob Yi, the ambitious paterfamilias, relocates his Korean-American family, including his skeptical wife, Monica, and their twins, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, yearning to own a small land. New beginnings, on the other hand, are often difficult, and determining what is best for the family, let alone starting a 50-acre farm … Read more
Cassie, a thirty-something medical school dropout who was characterized by a heinous crime involving her best friend, Nina, knows firsthand that certain wounds never heal. Cassie has found the right way to cope with her traumatic past by staying with her parents and working as a waitress at a cheap coffee shop. Cassie dresses to … Read more
When the local U.S. Gypsum plant closed the mine, and with it, the area, in 2011, widowed Fern, a former substitute teacher, was driven out of her home in Empire, Nevada, with nothing but a broken heart. Faced with a bleak economic future, Fern packs her meager belongings into a beat-up second-hand van and hits … Read more
Centered on Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s New York Times best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary,” this is the true storey of Slahi’s struggle for freedom after being detained and imprisoned by the US government for years without charge. Slahi finds allies in defence attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan, who are fighting the US government in … Read more