Talk to anyone, and you’ll find that marriage has about a 50% success rate. Whether the two have known each other for a lifetime or have just met, whether they’ve dated for years or weeks, whether they choose or it … Continue reading MEET THE PATELS
White God is a coat of many colors. It is an allegory, a horror movie, a science fiction tale, and a satire, placing dogs in the role of oppressed humans to address animalistic aggressions. In every society, there is a desire to … Continue reading WHITE GOD
Using an incredibly hokey premise and coming off like an over manufactured product, The Intern is a kind and gentle movie that massages the shoulders of the generation on the way out while holding the door open for the generation on the … Continue reading THE INTERN
It is safe to say that any director worth their weight will eventually be measured by the cinematic yardstick that is Alfred Hitchcock. While all who make movies owe something to the Master of Suspense, the actual inheritor to his … Continue reading THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (UNE NOUVELLE AMIE)
An exemplary piece of work about two estranged brothers hailing from the port of Buenaventura—the most dangerous city in Colombia—who find themselves at the bottom of the drug trade. Hired to transport a torpedo filled with cocaine up the Colombian … Continue reading MANOS SUCIAS
Transporting viewers to Cateura, Paraguay, a city of 2,500 families roughly seven miles south of the capital, Asución. Asución is home to two million and is capable of producing 1,500 tons of trash daily, almost all of which end up … Continue reading LANDFILL HARMONIC
September is Hispanic Heritage Month, and to celebrate, the Sie Film Center welcomes the return of CineLatino, a four-day film festival featuring 12 titles that showcase exemplary work coming from countries and cultures to the south. This year’s lineup features … Continue reading Saludos Amigos: Previewing the 2015 CineLatino
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany’s Third Reich produced 1,200 feature films, of which 300 were labeled propaganda by the Allies and banned from public screenings and distribution following the war. To this day, restrictions on 40 of these titles are … Continue reading FORBIDDEN FILMS (VERBOTENE FILME)
Our stories have to be deeper, they have to have something special, they have to have that filmic quality about it, and that’s actually a lot of pressure on us, to make these stories feel big and something just different … Continue reading Peter Mortimer on the 2015 Reel Rock Film Tour
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