One of the great things about film festivals is the chance to attend foreign films. The down side, of course: all that damn reading you have to do. Subtitles are like homework for your brain. Well we’ve got a solution for you: Crying With Laughter is an excellent foreign film…but it’s from Scotland! (Thank us later.) more ›

An American Cowslip is an extraordinarily beautiful, rare flower that can only grow when it’s left totally alone. That’s the best way to think about Ethan Inglebrink, a lovable sweet, naïve, agoraphobic heroin addict with a green thumb in Blythe California, a small town full of seemingly full of nothing but quirky characters. It takes a special kind of film to get the audience to root for the junkie, but in this colorful world, everything is as seen through the rose-colored glasses of the perfect high. And we have to admit, it’s hard not to get caught up in this stubbornly sunny worldview. more ›