This harsh and provocative title references a brilliant portrayal of a gifted seventeen-year-old student coming to terms with her sexuality. “Alike” (sensational performance by Adepero Oduye) has few doubts about her sexual proclivities; her middle-class family poses the vicissitudes, tumult; shedding pain, confusion and obfuscation on daily life. A fractured marriage, parents in denial: Audrey and Arthur (solid, fine, legitimate …

This riveting film revolving around the atrocities of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war (1992-1995) is irrefutable proof that Angelina Jolie is a powerful “woman of substance”; she tackles and fearlessly adheres to the horrific genocide (euphemistically coined “ethnic cleansing”) perpetrated against the Muslims by Serbian Nationalists. The movie commences with a man and a woman connecting and dancing in a local bar; …

Soon to be in theatres. This creepy but compelling film recalls only the supine position of the fairy tale princess. “Sleeping Beauty” a darling of the Chicago Film Festival, an enigmatic movie written and directed  by Julia Leigh delves into the deepest, deviant male sexual fantasies; a pathetic metaphor for man’s incapacity to relate to or legitimize the emptiness, inadequacies, …

It has been a year of breath- defying heights and devastating lows but constantly the movies offer a palliative hiatus from the wonders and woes of the day. I will continue to be immensely grateful and appreciate your continued readership; from all corners of the globe you represent lovers of the magical world of film and its transformative powers. Roman …