Filmmaker Peter Berg is a U.S patriot, his body of work increasingly seems fascinated with the examples of heroics that are drowned out by controversy.

Casey Affleck’s performance in “Manchester By The Sea” is one of the most effectively crafted portrayals of the crippling weight of grief in recent movies. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s composition is lured toward him, every moment that he’s occupying the frame; the actor is like a tractor beam.

"Silence” is a new movie from Martin Scorsese that examines the filmmaker’s own enduring crisis of faith.

“Boys in the Trees” is ambitious, inventive and has its eyes set on being an Australian answer to Rian Johnson’s “Brick” or Greg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin.” 

“Pete’s Dragon” feels like a mash-up between a Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn adventure except instead of two young lads it’s a prepubescent boy and a giant winged beast.  

Why does a character like “Sully” and his famous landing known as the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ make us feel sure to laud his heroics and still be indecisive in the case of Snowden? The outcome, is much more tangible to grasp; life or death. 

“The Dressmaker” wraps a pig pen of a town and its porky inhabitants in silk. It tackles the feeling of being cursed by your confines and the toxicity of small town gossip mongering; with beauty, death, romance and hilarity. 

Imagine a magical version of BBC Documentary Life on Earth and instead of the charming warmth and wisdom of David Attenborough; you have a ticking, face contorting Eddie Redmayne.