Okay, it's a little cheesy, I'll admit, but the urge to play host to a film festival was just too strong. So humor me if you will as I try to channel my inner Ryan Seacrest.This day, I went with my boyfriend and a few others friends to see a movie called "The Future" by Miranda July. You may know this film maker from her last movie "Me and You and Everyone We Know". If you haven't already seen either of these films , you should. July, is both an actor and writer/director for these films for which have a subtle humorous look at human idiosyncrasies.

In "The Future" Sophie and Jason give themselves 30 days to venture into what they really want to do instead of what pays the bills. The window of "opportunity" opens when their cat is hospitalized and they realize once she's back, they'll need to return back to normalcy (a real when the cat's away the humans come out to play). But as life usually has it, nothing goes to plan, and before long Sophie and Jason change their paths completely and lose sight of the passion they began with.

This movie really puts in focus the "what if" hypothetical we always seem to ponder: what if I changed my course in my youth, if I could go back in time. And what may just be the easiest pill to swallow is that no many how many times you try to play it or how differently, at the end you'll always be you and whether through fate or God or Universe, the "you" in the equation may have put you right where you are presently. Or so movie subtly begs the question. 

"The Future" will be in select theaters on July 29th.


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