Jasmine Road (Movie Reviews, Last Update Apr 2021)
CIFF: When a schoolteacher invites a Syrian refugee family to stay on her family's ranch, everyone's going to need some time to adjust. But not everyone wants to.
CIFF: When a schoolteacher invites a Syrian refugee family to stay on her family's ranch, everyone's going to need some time to adjust. But not everyone wants to.
I Am Greta (Movie Reviews, Last Update Apr 2021)
Film Festival Circuit: A documentary following Greta Thunberg, the young environmental activist making waves in global political systems, and the obstacles she faces in making meaningful change.
Film Festival Circuit: A documentary following Greta Thunberg, the young environmental activist making waves in global political systems, and the obstacles she faces in making meaningful change.
Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
CIFF: The Middleview Ducks are not a great basketball team, and there's nothing particularly significant about the game they're set to play - but the conversations they have in the dressing room, and the drama of their personal lives, means that today stands out for each of the boys.
CIFF: The Middleview Ducks are not a great basketball team, and there's nothing particularly significant about the game they're set to play - but the conversations they have in the dressing room, and the drama of their personal lives, means that today stands out for each of the boys.
Dark Cloud (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
CIFF: A documentary exploring the ongoing problem of cyberbullying in the lives of young people, and what we can do about it.
CIFF: A documentary exploring the ongoing problem of cyberbullying in the lives of young people, and what we can do about it.
Come True (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2021)
Digital on Demand: Sarah struggles to sleep, and seeks out professional help. The doctors enroll her in a sleep study, but the results do less to get Sarah the rest she needs and more to drag her into a nightmarish state of paranoia and terror...
Digital on Demand: Sarah struggles to sleep, and seeks out professional help. The doctors enroll her in a sleep study, but the results do less to get Sarah the rest she needs and more to drag her into a nightmarish state of paranoia and terror...
Coded Bias (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Film Festival Circuit: A documentary exploring Joy Buolamwini's discovery that facial recognition algorithms frequently fail to recognize black faces.
Film Festival Circuit: A documentary exploring Joy Buolamwini's discovery that facial recognition algorithms frequently fail to recognize black faces.
Bright Hill Road (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2020)
CIFF: Marcy is a struggling alcoholic, but her troubles are only just beginning: A shooting at her workplace puts her on leave, and she decides to head out to California, stopping briefly at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House...but finds it oddly hard to get back out again.
CIFF: Marcy is a struggling alcoholic, but her troubles are only just beginning: A shooting at her workplace puts her on leave, and she decides to head out to California, stopping briefly at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House...but finds it oddly hard to get back out again.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Netflix: Based on the true story of the Chicago Eight (later seven), arrested and prosecuted for participating in the 1968 protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Netflix: Based on the true story of the Chicago Eight (later seven), arrested and prosecuted for participating in the 1968 protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Clouds (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Disney+: Based on the true story of Zach Sobiech, a young man with terminal cancer. Zach decides that he wants to leave an uplifting legacy and focuses on his music, writing songs of love and hope.
Disney+: Based on the true story of Zach Sobiech, a young man with terminal cancer. Zach decides that he wants to leave an uplifting legacy and focuses on his music, writing songs of love and hope.
The War with Grandpa (Movie Reviews, Last Update Dec 2020)
In Theaters: Ed is too old to live alone and too grumpy to move into an assisted care facility. Moving in with his children means sharing space with his grandchildren - particularly Peter, who is forced to give up his room for his grandpa. Peter isn't about to take this lying down though: This means war.
In Theaters: Ed is too old to live alone and too grumpy to move into an assisted care facility. Moving in with his children means sharing space with his grandchildren - particularly Peter, who is forced to give up his room for his grandpa. Peter isn't about to take this lying down though: This means war.
The 40-Year-Old Version (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Netflix: Radha has struggled for years to breakout as a playwright, and after winning a "30 under 30" award, she's desperate to make her career work before she's 40. Realizing she might need to branch out, she reinvents herself as a rapper, trying to use the success in one field to get her into the other...
Netflix: Radha has struggled for years to breakout as a playwright, and after winning a "30 under 30" award, she's desperate to make her career work before she's 40. Realizing she might need to branch out, she reinvents herself as a rapper, trying to use the success in one field to get her into the other...
Spontaneous (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Digital on Demand: Mara and Dylan now live in a very different world than the one they expected. Students are randomly exploding at high school. This changes the way they see life...and love.
Digital on Demand: Mara and Dylan now live in a very different world than the one they expected. Students are randomly exploding at high school. This changes the way they see life...and love.
A Call to Spy (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Digital on Demand: With Britain in peril from the Nazis, Churchill tasks his new spy agency with building an underground resistance and sabotaging Nazi operations in France. His spymasters decide to send the last people anyone would expect: an American woman with a wooden leg and an Indian Muslim pacifist.
Digital on Demand: With Britain in peril from the Nazis, Churchill tasks his new spy agency with building an underground resistance and sabotaging Nazi operations in France. His spymasters decide to send the last people anyone would expect: an American woman with a wooden leg and an Indian Muslim pacifist.
Dick Johnson is Dead (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2021)
Netflix: A documentary by Kirsten Johnson about her and her father's attempts to prepare for his inevitable death, which they do by filming a number of fake deaths starring none other than Dick Johnson himself.
Netflix: A documentary by Kirsten Johnson about her and her father's attempts to prepare for his inevitable death, which they do by filming a number of fake deaths starring none other than Dick Johnson himself.
Spy Cat (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2020)
Digital on Demand: When burglars strike her community, Marnie the cat finally gets to live her dream of being a detective.
Digital on Demand: When burglars strike her community, Marnie the cat finally gets to live her dream of being a detective.