The Penguin Lessons is the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. When he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside down – and the penguin becomes not onl...
What does it mean, to go to the movies?
Why have people been going for over one hundred years?
I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic.
So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story.
Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.
A group of veteran marines steal a shipment of weapons from the military only to find a cold war era robot that hunts them down, determined to complete it's mission.
An ex junkie witnesses a murder. She is forced to cooperate with the killer to save her daughter's life. She must fight time, the police and criminal underworld to save the only person who means something to her.
When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precarious new reality, surviving on her own in New York City.
When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next door neighbor- a bitter, retired security guard- to help him find the missing woman.