The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.
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Love Birds (Murphy, 2011)
Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys Darby) who adopts and nurses a duck and eventually falls for the woman (Sally Hawkins) to whom he turns for advice.
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Head Games (James, 2012)
I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and time I spend that create an inducement--some might say a temptation--for other human beings to put their long-term health at risk for my pleasure.
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Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (Birleffi and Kopf, 2011)
Chely Wright is by all accounts and as represented in Wish Me Away a bright, affable, decent, serious, devout woman who did a noble and somewhat courageous thing by coming out as a lesbian after scratching out a promising career in country music.
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Macky Alston Interview
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another”
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Yogawoman (Clere & McIntyre, 2011)
The easiest defense of Yogawoman, if defense is needed, is that its leisurely pace and unstructured direction is emblematic of its subject matter. If you are restless or bored, perhaps you are out of alignment and should try yoga...
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Scenes From a Parish (Rutenbeck, 2009)
James Rutenbeck's Scenes from a Parish is the sort of documentary essay film that makes one pretty darn grateful for the 00.01% of the the federal budget that is granted to PBS.
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Simon & The Oaks (Ohlin, 2012)
There have now been enough films about--or set in and around-- the Holocaust that it is almost possible to group these films into subgenres.
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Thanks for Sharing (Blumberg, 2012)
Long before the soundtrack rhapsodizes about "tender comrades" in the film's final scene, Thanks for Sharing has made its central (and somewhat strange) thesis abundantly clear: addiction, however unpleasant it might be, is a small price to pay for the acquisition of the types of steadfast, loyal, and lifelong friends one acquires in support groups.