In “Revenge of The Mekons”, filmmaker Joe Angio takes us into the eccentric world of one of the world’s longest-running, least popular bands. A “wide disparity between their unrivaled critical acclaim and mass indifference” as the director explains. …Read more

In “Philomena”, Academy Award winner Judi Dench shows us a side of her she has rarely shown on screen. Famous for her stern, authoritative characters and their stinging line deliveries, here she plays a simple Irish woman named Philomena Lee, who con …Read more

In 1994 over a quarter of a million refugees escaped Rwanda and settled in what was then the country of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Without access to fresh water, food, and graves to bury their dead, settlers started succumbing to a …Read more

Nat Hentoff has always been a man wise beyond his years; a pioneer in musical journalism, his jazz reviews changed the way the genre was perceived by white audiences by giving it artistic value that made them embrace it as perhaps the ultimate Americ …Read more

“I don’t think it will be as dirty there” says eleven-year old Masha, when asked how she feels about being adopted by an American couple and moving to Wisconsin. Masha has lived in a Russian orphanage during most of her life and is in the process of …Read more

In 2011, artist Michael Heizer received a call from a quarry in the Jurupa Valley letting him know they had found his rock. For decades, Heizer had been planning an art project that would have a massive rock suspended over a man-made canyon, but tech …Read more

If Hollywood could have its way, the ending of “Finding Vivian Maier” would have the protagonist smiling widely as she received a standing ovation to celebrate her brilliant, unsung career. Vivian Maier’s life story however is so poetically tragic th …Read more

If James Gray’s “The Immigrant” had been made during the 1940’s, Ingrid Bergman would’ve played the heroine: a young woman by the name of Ewa Cybulski (Marion Cotillard) who escapes her native Poland and arrives to 1921 America in search of a better …Read more

If democratic changes truly spring from the power of the people, then “The Square” is the film everyone should watch to become inspired to pursue the political changes they want. Jehane Noujaim’s remarkable documentary “the Square” has already raked …Read more

From an early age, Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) was meant to be “someone”; as part of an acting troupe that included her two sisters, announcing them as “infant phenomena”, she filled the stages of England with performances in some of the most notor …Read more