In writer/director Darren Aronofsky’s world, when Noah receives word that the Earth is to be flooded, it comes not as a conversation from God with explicit instructions on how to build an ark of gopher wood complete with a precise set of cubit measurements and details on how the overall design should look, but […]

  In the new Israeli drama, Bethlehem, a suicide bomb attack occurs in the middle of Jerusalem, and we get a glimpse inside something we rarely see in the cinema; we go inside the Israeli Secret Service.  Many of the events that transpire throughout the film’s running time are based on actions that actually happened […]

  When author Veronica Roth wrote her first full-length novel, Divergent, she was only twenty-one.  By the time she graduated from Northwestern University she already had a number one New York Times bestselling novel on her hands, and that’s remarkable. Hollywood wasn’t far behind.  After the enormous, big screen commercial success of the young adult […]

  When you hear talk of the new Muppets comedy being a sequel, it’s kind of true, but not exactly.  It’s a sequel to the series reboot that took off like pigs in space a couple of years ago when Jason Segel wrote what was essentially a love-letter to the fuzzy ones back in 2011’s […]