When there are rumors of severe human rights violations, Human Rights Watch calls upon its select emergency unit, the E-Team who is expedited to the sites on the ground at great risk. There, they investigate the abuses gaining eye-witness testimony and collecting facts, data and hard evidence. Their reports are sent to global media and world leaders are brought closer to decisions to intervene or bring international sanctions to bear. This is an amazing film about their work and their lives that you will not soon forget.
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Movie Review: ‘St. Vincent’
Continues to prove Murray is one of our most treasured comedians with no signs of slowing down.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Inherent Vice’ Starring Joaquin Phoenix
Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson's characterizations are a reflection of us; they intimate future sinister developments of a broader cultural scope.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Housebound’
A hilarious goosebump-inducing funhouse of a film.
Read More »New York Film Festival World Premiere: ‘Gone Girl,’ Starring Ben Affleck
'Gone Girl' is about Amy's disappearance: physical, spiritual and psychic. The question is did Nick ever really know her enough to inspire her to come back to him to clear his name?
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Maps to the Stars’
Agatha is the catalyst who sets the heavens in motion back to her beginnings in this sometimes sardonic always intriguing and deep film by David Cronenberg.
Read More »New York Film Festival (Revival): ‘The Color of Pomegranates’
'The Color of Pomegranates' by Sergei Parajanov, is a masterwork by a director of genius who was blacklisted and then served 5 years in a Soviet Gulag in 1973. His films ran contrary to Soviet standards. Parajanov's innovations stand today as a hallmark of vision and experimentation. A maverick ahead of his time, Parajanov's minimalism created visual poetry that was and still is unique to the craft of cinema.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Heaven Knows What’
"Heaven Knows What" is not an easy film, but it's important, making us uncomfortable in its unrelenting "in your face" examination addiction's darkness.
Read More »New York Film Festival: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Seymour, An Introduction’
In 'Seymour, An Introduction' Ethan Hawke shows his chops as a first time documentary filmmaker using a surprising subject in a unique and intuitive process. The film is excellent for what and how it reveals a real and human portrait of friend and mentor of Hawke, former concert pianist, teacher, and composer, the incomparable Seymour Bernstein.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Found.’
I highly recommended "Found." for those with strong stomachs.
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