A woman fighting during the Civil War? What is the likelihood that she would have donned trousers and taken up arms to fight with the South or the North? Rebel, directed by Maria Agui Carter reveals how this could happen and in fact did relating the adventures of Loreta Velazquez based on her forgotten memoir, 'The Woman in Battle'.
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Athena Film Festival 2014: A Celebration of Women and Leadership
2014 Athena Film Festival rocks and inspires at Barnard College in February. Award recipients Callie Khouri, Kasi Lemmons, and Keri Putnam were on hand for the festivities.
Read More »Sundance 2014: Rest of Fest
And finally, here’s a complete list of this year’s Sundance Film Festival feature film awards:
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Reviews: ‘Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead’ and ‘The Raid 2: Berandal’
Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead fails to live up to expectations; on the other hand, The Raid 2: Berandal knocks it out of the park.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Review: ‘Hellion’
Writer/director Kat Chandler expands Hellion from her 2012 Sundance short into a tear jerker of a film — even if she uses way too much shaky cam.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Jewish Cardinal’
The filmmakers relay the account of Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris, with grace, reinforcing Lustiger's vision of reconciliation between the faiths in harmony and ecumenism.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich’ -23rd New York Jewish Film Festival
The film enlightens us about this controversial and brilliant individual of the mid-20th Century.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Reviews: ‘God Help the Girl’ and ‘Hits’
If there’s one thing I’m sure of as of this writing, it’s that I have only had to suffer through two horrible films at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Reviews: ‘The Skeleton Twins,’ ‘Obvious Child,’ and ‘Happy Christmas’
What would Sundance be without low budget comedies?
Read More »Sundance 2014 Movie Review: ‘Jamie Marks Is Dead’
If there’s one thing Guillermo del Toro’s Devil’s Backbone didn’t have, or need, was a bisexual love triangle between the living and the dead.
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