Christopher Quinn's documentary on the Lost Boys of Sudan, refugees of the civil war there, a few of whom are followed to the United States where they attempt to make a new home. A vast subject, covered skimmingly yet intimately: the eating of a pat of butter as if it …
Eve, a clinically diagnosed anorexic (Emily Browning), skips out of her treatment facility with little more to lead her than a desire to forever change the face of rock ‘n’ roll. She adopts as her bandmates a Napoleon Dynamite-ish lifeguard-cum-guitarist (Olly Alexander) and his wacky (and flush) friend (Hannah Murray). …
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult. Frustrated by bumbling botched official investigations, he quits the police force, gets tattoos, and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the charismatic cult leader, Cyrus, with the help of the cult's only female victim escapee, …
The final chapter in Darren Wilson’s 15 year, 6 film saga, this entry turns the focus on the most famous person in history, Jesus Christ. Led by a series of dreams, chance encounters, and impossible timing, Darren follows a spiritual rabbit trail that eventually leads to a remarkable conclusion about …
A feature-length documentary offering compelling evidence as to what the Star of Bethlehem really was, as well as additional proof for the date and circumstance of Christ’s crucifixion.
Place your bets: 1000 to 1 says Gordon Chan's 16th Century pirate picture from Hong Kong out swashbuckles Johnny Depp's latest turn as Jack Sparrow? Venerable Hong Kong action star Sammo Hung stars.
Julia Sweeney always seemed one of the more human and likable of the Saturday Night Live alums. The filmed record of her one-woman stage show, detailing her brother's and her own concurrent bouts with cancer, makes her seem more of each. Although she is also credited as director, it does …
Three-and-three-quarter-hour Civil War epic from Ronald F. Maxwell, writer and director also of Gettysburg: eight hours all told. Although it was made ten years later, and although the action takes place earlier, many of the same actors have been retained in the same roles (e.g., Jeff Daniels, C. Thomas Howell, …
Fictional speculation, from the Christopher Bram novel Father of Frankenstein, on the final days of the ostracized Hollywood director James Whale, his incomplete recovery from stroke, his haunted memories of World War I, his hankering for his well-built gardener ("You have the most architectural skull"), his suicide in his swimming …
A female black former police officer turned college professor in a rural college town is still grieving the death of her mother when she confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her snowy wilderness property. This draws her into an escalating battle of wills that puts her most deeply held …
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic. From filmmakers Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer and …
A genius geneticist (Robert De Niro) approaches a bereaved couple (Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) with a limited-time-only offer to clone their deceased son: "This is extremely against the law." All goes well until the duplicate's eighth birthday, when he passes the age of his predecessor and becomes an overnight problem …
A modest charmer from South Africa, written, produced, directed, "filmed" (photographed?), and edited by Jamie Uys. A Coca-Cola bottle, chucked out of a passing airplane, lands in the midst of some Kalahari Bushmen, causing unprecedented possessiveness and dissension. The tribal leader resolves to walk to the ends of the earth …
Jamie Uys's surprise 1980 hit out of South Africa -- out of nowhere, in effect -- is in one respect unrepeatable: the surprise part of it, if not also the magnitude of the hit. But the lightness of his touch has not gotten any heavier, nor has the sloppiness of …
Melissa Joan Hart stars in Harold Cronk's sequel to the faith-based college drama God's Not Dead. This time, the battle moves to high school, where a teacher brazenly quotes Scripture in response to a student's question about Jesus, and so puts herself in the crosshairs of the atheistic Powers That …