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KNEE CAP — Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvai Interview

August 1, 2024 By Leave a Comment

KNEE CAP — Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvai Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Rich Peppiatt convinced the Irish rap group Kneecap to let him tell their story during a long night of drinking. It’s one of the many things we talked about with two members of that group, Móglaí Bap, and JJ DJ Próvai, on July 26, 2024. There was a… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, Bobby Sands, Danu, dark comedy, death squads, feminine energy, Generational trauma, Irish language, Irish Language March, Irish Rap, Loyalists, Mother Goddess of Ireland, mother tongue, Native Americans, oral history, prison Irish, PTSD, Queen Maeve, Republicans, SXSW, Texas, West Belfast

SMILE

September 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SMILE

Among the primates, expect for humans, widening the mouth and showing the teeth is a signal of aggression. In humans, it’s called a smile, and I’m sure that anthropologists have made much hay about that behavioral disconnect between us and our cousins. Parker Finn, in his feature film debut as writer and director, also makes… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, hallucinations, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, Trauma

HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

November 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing I wanted to talk to Har’el when we spoke on October 10, 2019, was how tender the film. This despite portraying the harrowing, real-life childhood and adult struggles with anger and addiction of the film’s writer and co-star, Shia LeBeouf. Entwining parallel stories of LeBeouf’s… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, child actor, childhood trauma, emotional triggers, father-son relationship, mime, PTSD, semi-autobiographical

UNSANE

March 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

UNSANE

For me, the single most disconcerting image in a Steven Soderbergh film is from CONTAGION.  It’s not a panorama of people dying from the pandemic that threatens to end civilization as we know it, instead it’s the silent, dispassionately clinical shot of Gwyneth Paltrow’s head being autopsied. There are people I know who reference the… Read More »

Tagged With: health insurance scam, horror, mental health clinic, PTSD, stalking, voluntary commitment

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

May 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA

Robert H. Lieberman’s ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA asks difficult questions and provides answers that are as illuminating as they are troubling. His portrait of Cambodia is refracted through the genocide that was inflicted on it by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, a genocide that reduced the number of doctors in in a once prosperous… Read More »

Tagged With: Angkor Wat, baksbat, Cambodia, genocide, Hun Sen, Khmer Rouge, Nixon, Pol Pot, politics, PTSD, secret bombing of Cambodia, Vietnam war

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

The word “safe” comes up over and over again in MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN, Lloyd Kramer’s elegiac yet emotionally gripping documentary about the aftereffects of the Sandy Hook Massacre on the survivors. As in, the sense of being safe has been taken from everyone involved forever. The question becomes how to deal with it. Kramer’s film… Read More »

Tagged With: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Grace Project, catharsis, Connecticut, musical, outreach, PTSD, Sandy Hook Massacre, theater, therapy, Trauma

Gavin Hood on EYE IN THE SKY

March 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Gavin Hood on EYE IN THE SKY

Gavin Hood not only directed EYE IN THE SKY, the erstwhile actor also took a small role as a military officer overseeing drone pilots. It was one of the things we didn’t have time to talk about on March 2, 2016 when we sat down to discuss his brilliant new film that respects its audience,… Read More »

Tagged With: collateral damage, drone pilots, Drone strike, drone surveillance, drone warfare, ethics, high value target, Horn of Africa, Kenya, propaganda, PTSD, Somalia, terrorist attack, war on terror

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM — Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman Interview

January 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM — Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman Interview

Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman are first-time filmmakers whose short film, LAST DAY OF FREEDOM, has been short-listed for the Oscars™.  The hand-drawn animation tells the story of Bill Babbitt and his beloved brother Manny, two men who were let down by the system in which they placed their trust. When Bill realizes that Manny… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Bryan Stevenson, cruel and unusual, death penalty, execution, hand-drawn animation, health care, homelessness, Just Mercy, justice, justice system, mental health, Oscar short list, PTSD, racism, safe streets, systemic failure

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