Failure to protect is a charge aimed at punishing a negligent parent who failed to safeguard a child from serious harm. Years ago I worked for a woman whose ex-husband copped to twice pleasuring himself while their 4-year-old son slept next to him. Looking to remove the boy from a …
When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself. A film by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit.
Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson aren’t real world men of God, but they play them in the movies. Wahlberg stars as Stuart Long, a hard-living pugilist whose doctor cautions that it’s time to hang up the gloves. Next stop: showbiz, where homophobic Stu counters a casting agent’s advances with one …
The world's most unlikely priest is back in theaters in time for the holidays. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune …
A worthy companion to Max Lewkowicz’s Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, the 2019 documentary that placed the origins of the 1964 Broadway play into historical context. Picking up where Lewkowicz left off, Daniel Raims’ expedition carries us from stage to cinema. The film version was directed by Norman Jewison who, …
For thousands of years women have been locked out of Taiko drumming. Not anymore, according to this documentary directed by Dawn Mikkelson and Keri Pickett.
They were the world's only volcanologist couple, and it was their mutual passion that ultimately brought about their demise. The love shared by Katia and Maurice Krafft wasn’t going to burn out of them, it was only going to get hotter. They saw a side of the planet few will …
We’ve devolved to a point in our paranoid history where remaking a movie about an off-the-grid government agency that knowingly employs a pedophiliac child killer to do its bidding could almost be as fresh as today’s headlines. Stephen King’s John Rainbird was such a man, but when it came time …
Swedish procedural drama about an emergency services team in the remote mountain resort of Åre - a location as breathtakingly beautiful as it is dangerous.
Arabic language movie about a fashion designer who loves beauty, relates to beautiful girls, and hopes to establish romantic relationships with them. When he undergoes a new psychotherapy technique, hoping to overcome his fear of commitment, he realizes there may not be a perfect bride with zero flaws. But there …
Athlete Ben Ferguson and an elite crew of professional snowboarders travel the globe to document two winters of chasing storms in search of the adventure of a lifetime. Starring Ben Ferguson, his brother Gabe, good friend and Olympic Gold medalist Red Gerard, (one of Ben’s co-stars in 2019’s JOY), Jared …
Determined to disrupt the wedding of his ex-girlfriend by stealing her dowry, underachieving, wanna-be rapper Vinny and his neighborhood pals concoct a plan to take her family jewels from a supermarket safe. Directed by Ravi Kapoor. Starring: Venk Potula, Sonal Shah, Sharmita Bhattacharya & Nirvan Patnaik.
At the time of his arrest, Chol Soo Lee had 41 rounds of live ammo and a 357 Magnum in his room and he was on probation for felony theft. He was a Korean punk living in Chinatown, but the gangs never bothered him. Lee confessed to firing a gun …
Coming-of-age tales with an extra dose of cringe concerning a teenage cartoonist who defies his parents' wish for him to attend college and rejects his suburban life, leaving his home and his comfortable, predictable past behind in a misguided quest for soul. Dropping out of high school, he finds an …
No sooner does the brief, biographical opening credits sequence end then former U.S. representative Gabby Giffords is lying in a hospital bed, a gunshot wound to the head making it next to impossible for her to do something as simple as giving a thumbs up. Her husband, retired astronaut and …