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By David Finkelstein | November 2011
This seems like a very informal, relaxed version of Buddhism…
"Retreat" is an experimental portrait of Amy Miller, an American woman who is a Buddhist nun in the Mahayana tradition. Miller runs the Milarepa Center in...
"Crooked Beauty" is an experimental portrait of Jacks Ashley McNamara, an artist and advocate for the mentally ill. Ms. McNamara is an astonishingly...
Digital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming...
When I interviewed writer/director M.A. Littler (The Road to Nod) for Z Magazine many months ago, his documentary was not yet ready for my viewing. ...
There’s absolutely no way on God’s green-pastured, stallion-roaming earth you could POSSIBLY convince me that “Buck” would bring me to tears. I...
According to Lauren Parsekian’s “Finding Kind,” teen girls aren’t made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. They wield emotional daggers, striking...
If you are a fan of the paranormal, the unexplained or just the legendary Mothman (first heard of by many courtesy of The Mothman Prophecies starring...
Werner Herzog may be obsessed with filming extremes – personalities or natural phenomena – but he finds the grandeur in style to do them justice. In...
Writing and producing all that comedy must have urged Phil Rosenthal to star in his own story. After creating the series "Everybody Loves Raymond"...