Sun, Dec 11, 2011
We feature "Broken Fences" and an interview with the filmmaker himself, Troy McGatlin. About the film: Joe, a rancher in the mountains of Colorado, has his life of solitude interrupted when his luckless son gets paroled from prison and moves back in with him, bringing his ill-fated ways along.
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
We talk about "The Substance of Things Hoped For". About the film: After the death of her closest two friends, young Daphne Lessing suffers a loss of faith, then a lapse in memory. Confronted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a pregnancy she neither planned nor is able to explain, Daphne is forced into a terrible choice: lose her child or lose her mind.
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
We talk about the indie horror feature "Hampshire: A Ghost Story", before playing the film. About the film: After a contractor disappears from the upper floors of a century's old building, strange occurrences begin affecting the people - and the food - at the upscale restaurant on the first floor. Stories and theories are passed around with the signs pointing to supernatural play, but the Busy Bistro's staff have been warned not to use words like 'ghost' and 'haunted'. Even as a tormented former employee returns to find closure from his past with the restaurant, denial reigns supreme among those in charge. It's not until a disastrous dinner service that the haunt is confronted and the pompous owner, his cold-hearted manager, a chef, a madman and a pair of twins deal with the horror on Hampshire Street.
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
We talk about the indie drama "Runaways" before playing the film. About the film: Runaways is Steve Moore's story. He's sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in emergency hospital visits, Cheryl's loyalty is to her boyfriend. To protect her relationship with John, she "ditches" her son, having him arrested and locked in a correctional "mental" facility, before coercing her older brother Burt, who lives in Hollywood, to take him. Steve quickly discovers that Burt cannot even provide temporary lodging, but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way.
Tue, Mar 27, 2012
We talk about the documentary "Death By Medicine". About the film: The film explores the dominant medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and a healthier, more holistic system. Based on Gary Nulls groundbreaking book with statistical evidence of hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths due to conventional medicine. It looks at the pharmaceutical industry, drug reps, medical schools, medical journals and the absence of real medical science. The lack of oversight by our regulatory agencies, private insurance firms and lobbying influence upon our legislators. The result is the American medical system is broken and it is time to create a new medical paradigm.
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
We feature the documentary "Knocking on the Devil's Door": The nuclear reactor catastrophes at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now at Fukushima, Japan, remind us that a heinous specter hovers over the health and security of millions of people worldwide. Not only does the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation remain but every nuclear station sits as a ticking bomb awaiting meltdown and terrorist attack. Many Russian studies conclude that the Chernobyl disaster has been responsible for the deaths of approximately a million people since the 1986 meltdown. And the cost of the Daiichi Fukushima crisis may be higher. From the mining of radioactive materials to their transportation, from reactor fusion to the storage of radioactive waste, the energy cartel is contaminating natural habitats, rivers and aquifers while endangering millions of lives.
Tue, May 8, 2012
We feature the experimental drama "A Book of Truth, a Book of Lies": In a pre-9/11 New York City, two former Russian immigrants, Jenya and Andrey, have good reasons to be atheists, to espouse polygamous relationships and be convinced that the single source of all peoples' problems is a human propensity to believe in speculative unprovable causes. As our protagonists embark on a mission to embrace their lovers, friends and family members and in the same time open people's minds to realize that unexamined beliefs lead to dire consequences in life, they find themselves being rejected time and again. The two conclude that they simply belong to a different conscious species and decide to leave the human race - on September 11th, 2001.