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20th Century Women

Director Mike Mills pays sympathetic tribute to his mother’s life in this comedy/drama set in the late 1970s.

By |December 28th, 2016|Family drama|0 Comments

Fences

A classic family drama and the first feature film version of a play by August Wilson.

By |December 26th, 2016|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck's documentary passionately reintroduces and reinterprets James Baldwin for a new generation.

By |December 12th, 2016|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Two Trains Runnin’

June 1964, two quests in the Mississippi Delta, both with lasting impact.

By |December 1st, 2016|Documentary|0 Comments

Bobby Sands: 66 Days

A terrorist? A martyr? Hear his own words.

By |November 30th, 2016|Documentary|0 Comments

Blood on the Mountain

The fraught relationship between the residents of Appalachia and the coal in their ground.

By |November 18th, 2016|Environmental|0 Comments

Disturbing the Peace

All they are saying, in Hebrew and Arabic, is give peace a chance.

By |November 10th, 2016|Documentary, Middle East|0 Comments

Fire at Sea

The award-winning film brings the viewer along for an extended stay on the European front line in the refugee crisis.

By |October 21st, 2016|Documentary, Italian|0 Comments

Denial

Methodically taking down a prominent Holocaust denier with facts.

By |October 14th, 2016|U. K.|0 Comments