There have been many films in the past few years dealing with the reality’s of war, the recent film ‘Brothers’ come to mind. Howver, none have captured the idea of the “lost” soldier as well as writer/director Ryan Redford’s ‘Oliver Sherman.’ ‘Oliver Sherman,’ doesn’t delve into any sort of detail of exactly what war the …
When I sat down for ‘Green,’ I didn’t expect that I’d be watching a horror film. Green is not horror in the literal way, much of what occurs is internal, but writer/director Sophia Takal takes us there through great editorial and visual decisions. Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) leaves her (suggested as pretentious) Brooklyn community so …
‘Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story,’ is a memorial to Mark Sandman, the frontman of Boston based band ‘Morphine.’ The filmmakers were given complete access to the Sandman family’s archives, as well as to the band’s friends and family. ‘Morphine,’ began in Cambridge, MA, and was made up of Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and …