Author: Sarah Esterman

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’ve decided you’re too good for midterms, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.

There’s usually a moment in the first 10 or 20 minutes of a film that signifies whether it’s going to be a terrible movie or a good one. Nothing monumental needs to happen in the film itself for this moment to come about. It’s something that I either do or don’t do: check the time.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re suffering with a case of senioritis (or just almost-end-of-the-school-year-itis), you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones.

There’s an old saying that you are what you eat. But as we’ve learned in recent years from filmmakers like Robert Kenner and investigative journalists like Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, “we are what what we eat eats, too.”

Independent art films seem to have this remarkable ability to shake up whomever is watching. That is, whoever actually understands what they are watching.

In a lot of ways, living sustainably can be a real cash saver. Nixing bottled water and investing in a BPA-free reusable bottle can save you hundreds of dollars each year, and employing energy-efficient home devices can shave big bucks off your power bill.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re already staring at the calendar and counting down the days until summer, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones.

There’s something about period films—particularly those based on true stories—that seems fabricated. The irony is that these sorts of films are (literally) fabrications, mere imitations of a time period none living can truly understand.

You know those moments when you’re watching a film, TV show or even just an advertisement (think those old and bizarre Quiznos Subs commercials with the rat-things) and you’re asking yourself what the hell is happening

here are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re spending your time praying to the sun gods while you wait for your clothes to dry, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones.

There are a lot of sweet films playing at local theaters this week and unless you’re moping around lamenting the end of spring break, you probably don’t have the time to pick out the best ones. But don’t worry about it—we’ve searched through them for you.