Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do not value this necessary process and filmgoers finding themselves deeply moved by a particular film are often left wondering […]
The Revenant
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. This film transports you to the 1820’s American wilderness where the mountain men carved out a living trapping for furs. This movie has captured that […]
Touch: The Series
Kiefer Sutherland stars in this smart and hopeful drama about the ties that bind all of us together. Single father Martin Bohm (Sutherland) struggles to raise his emotionally challenged son Jake. But Martin soon discovers that Jake possesses an amazing gift: the ability to see the hidden patterns of numbers that connect every life on […]
Ordinary People
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in the northern suburbs of Chicago trying to return to normal life after the accidental death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Feeling alienated from his friends and […]