What is beauty? What fashion magazines and the media presents? Is there room for individuality or must we all fit the conventional image of beauty we see plastered everywhere? Conventional beauty images by their very nature are discriminatory. Is that such a bad thing?
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Previewing San Antonio Film Festival 2015: Director David Zucker, Actor Sean Young, Stuntman Corey Eubanks and More
Writer/director David Zucker, actor Sean Young and stuntman Corey Eubanks are scheduled to appear at the 21st edition of the ever-expanding San Antonio, Texas Film Festival.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Batman vs. Robin’
'Batman vs. Robin' pits Batman against a new secret society and his own sidekick.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Minions’ – You Had Me at Bello
The Minions are why children have to see this film, and it becomes a sort of communal experience when every kid is trying to see who can laugh the loudest during the movie.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ With Billy Crudup and Ezra Miller
What would you do if you were given authority over others and no one was monitoring your actions? Would you apply the golden rule? Of course you would, unless you had a hidden axe to grind and more power than you ever imagined you could have. Such is the case when a simulated prison experiment becomes a runaway train and no one seems to be at the controls which happened at Stanford University in 1971.
Read More »Anthem FilmFest: ‘Searching for Eddie Running Wolf’
Searching for Eddie Running Wolf, a feature length documentary by director Thomas Hartmann, defies easy classification.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Caffeinated’ With Danny Glover
There are many secrets to the drink you probably take for granted every day you get up and have a cup of coffee to start your day. Do you know how botanists classify a coffee bean? It is a vegetable or fruit?
Read More »Anthem FilmFest: Putting People Back Together
At the Anthem Film Festival, part of the libertarian FreedomFest conference July 8-11, 2015, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, I was discussing films with a young woman who commented, “I like documentaries, but so many of them are so depressing. I want to see positive stories.” She was in the …
Read More »Movie Review: Eugene Green’s ‘La Sapienza’ – Visually Astounding Work of Art
An almost cautionary tale that dwells between past and present, bringing with it the possibility of spiritual and ideological rebirth
Read More »Movie Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence’
'A Pigeon Sat On A Branch' is a painful reminder of what life can be if we do not live it, if we choose to ignore the beauty of the moment, the significance of life, and the splendor of what it means to be human.
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