A still grieving bookstore owner’s life is changed when he becomes the ward of an abandoned girl just after a prized book is stolen.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)
Behind the Bullet (2019)
This film about gun violence in that4 people who pulled a gun’s trigger tell their stories in graphic detail.
Butter (20210
An obese teenager pining for a lovely girl decides to end being bullied by announcing he will commit suicide after eating live on the Internet on New Year’s Eve.
Uncle Frank (2020)
Southerner Frank, estranged from his father Frank over his homosexuality, returns with his niece & lover for the old man’s funeral.
First Reformed (2018)
In upstate NY a Protestant minister, teetering between faith & despair because of the death of his son in war & his resulting divorce, becomes radicalize by the suicide of an environmentalist.
Gifted (2017)
On the 1st day of 1st grade Mary’s teacher discovers she is gifted in math, setting off a fight between her uncle raising her & his mother over how to do so–in a normal school as he promised her deceased mother, his sister, or isolated in a school for geniuses.
Christine (2016)
This the story of events leading up to the depressed reporter Christine Chubbuck shooting herself in 1974 while reporting live on camera at her Florida TV station.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Don’t let Mel Gibson’s past behavior keep you from seeing this amazing film about WWII hero Desmond Doss. Click the image to read my entire review.
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
Amos Oz tells the story of his boyhood with his troubled parents just before & after the birth of Israel, his depressed but talented mother passing on to him the gift of story telling before her suicide.
Swiss Army Man (2016)
A would be-suicide stranded on an island gains a new grip on life when he comes upon a flatulent corpse which he uses in ingenious ways for survival and companionship.