“You are my dream. But you arrived a little too soon.”  The bittersweet ache of this line, said in voiceover in “I Carry You with Me,” carries with it the weight of the circumstances beneath the love story depicted, where love is unable to grow naturally, where love arrives unexpectedly in an unwelcoming world, where…

“Fathom” is only secondarily about whales. This is not one of those nature documentaries with breathtaking footage of animal lifecycles. It’s the story of two scientists who study whales, and it accompanies them on two separate but related field studies. Like other recent science documentaries, “The Edge of All We Know” and “Particle Fever,” it’s…

“Gaia” is a trip. Literally. Magic mushrooms are involved. Pop a hallucinogenic substance and the world might look something like “Gaia,” where, in the Tsitsikamma forest in South Africa, a fungi of monumental proportions proliferates at night, gathering strength, threatening to take over the earth. Throw in a couple of wandering half-human half-mushroom creatures, and…

Despite its over orchestration, director Vanessa Roth’s slight, hagiographic documentary “Mary J. Blige’s My Life,” manages to provide profound truths concerning its self-admitted insecure subject. In 1994, Mary J Blige released what she considers her most personal album: My Life. Since the album’s release, the raw 17-song compendium about loneliness, depression, and pining lamentations has…

If you enjoyed the reality series “Ice Road Truckers” but thought it could use some frantic gunfire, mechanical sabotages, and intentional avalanches to heighten the degree of difficulty, you’re in luck. Now there’s “The Ice Road,” but it’s a thoroughly middling Liam Neeson actioner that’s not nearly as exciting as the above description makes it…

The small town of Beaverton is in crisis. A sly oil man named Sam Parker (Wayne Duvall) is trying to get a pipeline built in the town, and seems to relish how the proposition has divided its citizens. A werewolf then enters the picture to clean house, naturally, in “Werewolves Within,” Josh Ruben’s playful horror-comedy about being…