Relief for the Spiritually Parched by John Priddy As a special encore presentation, we are proud to present “Dried Up,” by Stuart Bury, Jeremy Casper and Isaiah Powers. We invite you to gaze through the artistic and creative lens of puppet animation in order to truly...

Quirky Fantastic Mr. Fox Lives Up to Its Title Jeffrey Huston Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer http://www.crosswalk.com/movies/dvds/11616952/ Not Perfect, The Men Who Stare at Goats Still Good for Laughs Jeffrey Huston Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer http://www.crosswalk.com/movies/dvds/11616439/

The Surprising Power of a Wish by John Priddy We are proud to have an encore showing of one of our Windy Wednesday Windrider WinterFest series films that received a great deal of positive feedback: “Driftwood”, by Michelle Steffes. With this highly acclaimed, 19-minute,...

Brooding and Heartbreak Go Hand in Hand in Remember Me Christa Banister Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer Release Date: March 12, 2010 Rating: PG-13 (for violence, sexual content, language and smoking) Genre: Drama/Romance Run Time: 128 min. Director: Allen Coulter Actors: Robert...

Now Playing: “Rocket Man” “No longer a boy and yet still full of joy”…so states a narrator near the conclusion of Laurence Cohen’s ingenious, sci-fi-tinged short, The Rocket Man, whose title derives from lead character Benji’s favorite childhood book....

 Tim Burton’s Wild Imagination Put to Good Use in Alice in Wonderland Christa Banister Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer Release Date:  March 5, 2010 Rating:  PG (for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar) Genre:  Adventure/Adaptation/Family/Fantasy Run...

OSCARS 2010: Old School Storytelling Posted by: Craig Detweiler (originally posted on www.purplestateofmind.com) Plenty of Oscar prognosticators turn the nominations into a horserace.  They assign odds to the various nominees based upon timing and the mood of the Academy voters.  ...

A church for people like us by Norman Lear (originally posted here) I consider myself deeply religious. I was born a Jew and I love my people and our culture. I could not be prouder of what, in our long history, we have brought to the world. But that is not what makes me religious. What...

Humor Sheds Light into the Darkest Heart by John Priddy We are proud to present the next Windy Wednesday film in our Windrider WinterFest series: Hearts of Darkness, from Zac Streich. Zac Streich’s hilarious animated short Hearts of Darkness, an Angelus finalist,  presents a pastiche-like...