Philomena is based on a book about a woman named Philomena Lee.  It’s the true story of an Irish Catholic girl who grows up in England, who becomes pregnant after a short teen romance, and is forced against her will to move into a religious convent in order to avoid the terrible “shame” of bearing an out-of-wedlock child.  The film’s director is Stephen Frears, best known for The Queen.

All Is Lost is a one-man show.

Taking minimalism to the extreme, the entire 100-minute film consists of a lone actor, a few scripted lines, on a single location.

What if you could go back in time.  Would you?

If given the opportunity, I suppose most of us would choose to rewind and relive certain events in our lives over again.  We’d try to fix what we messed up.  Correct mistakes we made.  Take back something we said.

Then again — would our lives actually turn out any better if we could do them over and over until we finally got it right?  What about the lives of those around us?  Wouldn’t their lives be disrupted too and turn out differently?  What if everyone else is perfectly happy with how things turned out the first time around?  Do they get to voice an opinion?  These are a few of the serious questions worth pondering in the new film “About Time.”