A couple who treat one another well—because they are in love—told in a naturalistic setting. At the movies, it’s a breath of fresh air to see a couple engage one another positively in every moment they are with one another. That’s Paterson (2016): out on DVD since April 4 in North America. In their everyday…

We may choose which we way we go in life, but life cannot be always as clear cut as that.  There are complexities involved in decision making such as circumstances. Losing mother and brother can be one of those circumstances.  The Indian boy Saroo in Lion (2016) has lost his mother and brother. Saroo asked…

You may have your preferred section–the newspaper interview with Jacqueline Kennedy or her handling of grief–but Jackie (2016) comes together all very well as a whole. The film goes back and forth from Jackie Kennedy’s newspaper interview at her home in Massachusetts, to her grief immediately after her husband President John Kennedy’s assassination. Interview and grief…

There are no ballerina pivots in Jackie (2016), but it is about “pivots” in life or pivotal events.  Something happens and life revolves around this, it is pivotal. The event can be untimely and disturbing, but life is not forever altered by the event. The event and its aftermath passes. This movie is about how…

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