Many moments in The Light Between Oceans (2016, out now for home viewing) accentuate isolated and needy individuals who don’t really want to be alone. Tom and Isabel The film begins by lingering on Tom’s isolation on the Australian coast. He is single, alone and surrounded by mountain and land on one side and ocean…

The airplane drama Sully (2016, out now on DVD) is not a testosterone fueled action flick. That’s maybe why someone I heard, who dismissed Sully, probably wanted more western flick than dramatic. Because Sully is directed by iconic western star of the 1960’s and 70’s Clint Eastwood. However, no western this time, with Sully. Eastwood…

Fighting for what’s yours is a theme of Woman in Gold (2015), a drama starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Bruhl. Maria Altmann, played by Mirren, is a retiree living in Los Angeles. She discovers a painting of her family’s had been stolen by the Nazis in the 1940’s. The painting, Portrait of Adele…

One had been so very lost in life. Even the lowest one can go. No direction, no life, guilt, sorrow, despair. One wallowed in inaction and hopelessness in a cloud of depression. As unlikely as it may have seemed a solution came clear. The solution seemed incomprehensible, but a lost life is reclaimed and then…

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