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German director/co-writer Sven Unterwaldt gives us a colorful sequel to the 2021 film based on the popular German children’s book series by Margit Auer. Like the first, this is a blend of CGI animation and live action, with even more delightful magical animals paired up with a child. At the very beginning we see Mortimer …
Director Tony Goldwyn’s film, scripted by Tony Spiridakis, presents us with a fractured family in New Jersey dealing with an autistic son. Ezra (William Fitzgerald) is an 11-year-old boy with a brilliant mind, but one so wired that he lives in a different emotional world from everyone else. He cannot bare to be touched, and …
If anyone had reason to give in to despair it would be Helen and David Smallbone (portrayed by Daisy Betts and Joel Smallbone) when what seemed to be a lucrative opportunity for David to manage Amy Grant’s Australian tour falls through, landing the family deep in debt. The two, deciding upon a move to America, …
Films like Ken Loach’s The Old Oak are why I am still so passionate about well-crafted films, especially those dealing with the down and out, those oppressed by the powerful. His latest protest parable, written by frequent collaborator Paul Laverty, celebrates those victimized by a series of UK conservative powers during the latter years of …
Writer/director Minhai Baig’s elegaic story of an imaginative boy facing the end of a way of life is deeply moving. It makes me believe all the more that the best of films are being made by indepedant filmmakers. This is a must see film. The setting is the vast Cabrini-Green project that at its height …
Palestinian-Jordanian Ameen Nayfeh director/writer shows us the effect that the Israeli wall dividing the West Bank from Israel has on a Palestinian family. It is an effective tool for a better understanding of “the Palestinian situation” than an abstract discussion of the issues because it never preaches, but rather tells a story of an ordinary …
French-born director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has gifted us with the most harrowing parable about an ambulance medic since Martin Scorsese’ 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. That title fits the newer film as well, with so many of the victims treated by the two medics in this story dying before or just after arriving at the hospital, …
In this 8-part series the parallel lives of Malcolm X & MLK, Jr. unfold, from their boyhood to their maturity as each fights racism in their own way.
Autobiographical story about a Black boy largely raised by the owner of his rooming house & its residents, based on a play.
Moving from past to present, this autobiopic tells the story of an Iranian American daughter & her mother coming to terms with each other.