You know how there's films and then there's films? There's films that aren't just something you watch and forget. They're the ones that mark a before and after. They're the ones that make it into your dreams and do something to your bones as if the change is permanent. This film, LOUD KRAZY LOVE. It's one of those films. I don't remember much of the whole KoRn phenomenon, to be honest. At that time—the mid-nineties—I was busy being a giant nerd in high school, getting As in E

Not something I do every day. But it is exactly what "those boys"—Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran—did. And Execution Island, the new short film about the night they died, takes us there with them. It is a shatteringly powerful film. The power is in the truth of it. Yes, this film recounts true events, most particularly the overwhelming goodness of God in the midst of a situation that seemed irredeemable. But also: this film portrays a wider, and at the same time more persona

“I think that we human beings have a compass, a mysterious compass, which leads us to do what is right.” –Jean Vanier Hearing the quote above–which begins Summer in the Forest, a documentary about L’Arche, founded by Jean Vanier–I was afraid the film itself would be overly pat and syrupy. I was wrong. When four men labeled as “idiots” were confined to a life of imprisonment in asylum-like institutes in the 1960’s, a young Canadian philosopher named Jean Vanier secured their r