Jeffrey Brown's latest film, SOLD focuses on the topic of child sex trafficking. Child sex trafficking, as impossible as it seems, is a massive international problem affecting an astounding 5.5 million children each year. There are “more slaves in the world now than at any other time in history,” says director Jeffrey Brown. His new [...]
December 30, 2015 E-News from LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health Magazine December 2015 | ISSUE 294 December 2015 On the cover: Matt Hodges Photogrpahed by: Amy Goalen From the Editor As we continue to celebrate the holiday season we prepare for the changing of a calendar year. This is a meaningful time to evaluate and reevaluate [...]
December 22, 2015 E-News from LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health Magazine December 2015 | ISSUE 293 December 2015 On the cover: Matt Hodges Photogrpahed by: Amy Goalen From the Editor Once we pivot on the timestamp of the Winter Solstice, the days start becoming longer. It happens in such an incremental manner that we may not [...]
December 17, 2015 E-News from LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health Magazine December 2015 | ISSUE 292 December 2015 On the cover: Matt Hodges Photogrpahed by: Amy Goalen From the Editor The Holiday (or Holy Days) season can be times of great joy and reflection. We may take time for ourselves in solitude and darkness or we [...]
Jessica Biel stars in Diane Bell's latest film Bleeding Heart. Written and directed by Diane Bell. It’s refreshing to have the practice of yoga featured prominently in the storyline of a film. Pitting the peacefulness of yoga against violence and greed, the film Bleeding Heart asks: How far will a good-hearted yogi go to defend [...]
Realized by Laurie Anderson As America’s best-known experimental performance artist, Laurie Anderson has made her mark in many forms of media: multimedia stage performances, seven books, multiple studio albums and soundtracks, visual art museum installations. And, yes, filmmaking. Laurie’s meditative nonfiction film, Heart of a Dog, is an impressionistic musing on love, life, and death reinforced by evocative [...]
The insidious crime of cyberbullying is becoming ever more pervasive in our current digital age; studies show that more than half of adolescents today actually engage in bullying or have themselves been victims. Public shaming is practically becoming a sport, and students can be harassed not only in the schoolyard but online 24/7, with [...]
Rooted in Peace Film Review Directed by Greg Reitman World peace. It can seem like a cliche, the mysterious Holy Grail, what we answer when asked our deepest desire, the expected quote from a beauty pageant contestant. The documentary Rooted in Peace asks this question: What will it take for people to create a world [...]
David Lipsky, as a Rolling Stone reporter, accompanied author David Foster Wallace on the last leg of the book tour for Wallace’s unexpected 1996 bestseller Infinite Jest. In this insightful film adaptation based on Lipsky’s chronicle of those five days, filmmaker James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) portrays the struggles that the creative genius had with [...]
Helen Hunt’s character in the film Ride, (a movie she not only starred in, but also wrote and directed) is abrasive, crude yet dauntless and compassionate. The nuances found in this textured yet sympathetic performance shouldn’t surprise anyone after her bold performances in As Good as It Gets, The Sessions, Mad About You, and her many varied roles in film and TV. [...]