My, how time changes things! That was my first impression of director, producer, co-writer Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby after watchingthefirst 25 minutes of his new movie and sitting thorough an extravagant scene ... more

Anyone heard this one? Six guys and a parrot float across the Pacific Ocean on a raft – close to 5000 miles from Peru to Polynesia – using technology from 1500 years ago. ... more

The vibrancy and abandon of the opening scene of Senegalese dancers twisting and turning in the West African sun offer a stark contrast with what follows in Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue. In this ... more

A caving enthusiast visiting Ukraine in 1993 in search of family history found a little-known Holocaust story as compelling and harrowing as any in the literature. New Yorker Chris Nicola found two caves ... more

Jaunty Tom Cruise is saving the world again in Oblivion. It’s difficult to review a movie that baffles from the start, and not being able to figure out the plot right away – ... more

Sometimes the best of intentions can end up as an unexpected journey as is the topic of Not Today. When Pastors Mathew Cork and Brent Martz made a trip to India ... more