When David (Jon Bass), who is Jewish, and his fiance, Meg (Meghan Leathers), who is Catholic, invite her parents for the first time to meet his parents, nerves run high. After all, David’s mom Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick) is not too…
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Do you know that one about “Jokes & Cigarettes?”
By Rachel Galvin A troubled comic sits in the green room in front of a lit-up mirror (David Verdaguer) holding his head in his hands. He is supposed to go on stage in mere minutes, yet his mind is a…
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Film Review: “Isle of Hope”
By Rachel Galvin Anyone who is in the “Sandwich Generation” will know the stress of caring for ailing parents and children at the same time. This anxiety can lead to conflicts with interpersonal relationships and problems learning to cope. This…
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Film Review: Along comes a spider… “Holy Spider’s” grisly tale hits very close to home
By Rachel Galvin As the streets of Iran have erupted with protestors enraged at the killing of a 22-year-old woman who dared to show a little too much hair from beneath her head scarf, a film called “Holy Spider” comes…
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Film Review: “My Name is Sara”
By Rachel Galvin As World War II rages and Jews are being rounded up by Nazis, a young 13-year-old Polish Jewish girl named Sara and her brother are instructed by their parents to escape before it is too late. As…
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Film Review: “How to Please a Woman”
By Rachel Galvin Photos by from Michelle Shwarzstein (Brainstorm Media) In the new Australian film “How to Please a Woman,” directed by Renee Webster, Gina (Sally Phillips) is a frustrated woman in her 50s in an unsatisfying marriage and unappreciated…
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Film Review: “Joe Bell”
By Rachel Galvin Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg) walks a walk of penance in this film named after his moniker. It tells the true story of this man who treks across the United States from Oregon to New York preaching the…
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Film Review: “The Courier”
By Rachel Galvin As the Cuban Missle crisis ramps up, Grenville Wynne, an unassuming English salesman played by Bernadict Cumberbatch, has been recruited by MI6 and a beautiful CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan,known for playing Midge in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)…
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