AMERICAN BABY: “There’s Always Room for Love.” But Where Is Love for Oli?
Oli knows. “There’s always room for love.” That’s a pretty wise thing for this once-naïve, accidentally pregnant 15-year-old in Ellen Rodnianski’s American Baby. And you need love most when you're in a confusing situation and don’t know what to do. But Oli lives in a conservative, Southern Baptist town in Texas. And love is not what she’s going to get. No … Not in the name of “morality …”
BRUTON: Early Deprivation & How Hunger Goes Awry
Thinking you can get away with things never works. So, what’s behind the fantasy that you will? Well, the manic excitement about all the possibilities (to “cure” your painful feelings) might be such a big lure that you don’t even think about the consequences. That’s Bryan, in Vincent Grashaw’s new film, Bruton. But what are the real reasons his hunger goes awry …