Rob (Josh Radnor, “How I Met Your Mother”) and Kate (Annie Parisse, “Law & Order”) are your classic 1970s college professors: open-minded, well-meaning, liberal to a fault. They’ve raised their daughter, Bobbie (Nuala Cleary), to believe activism is not just acceptable but necessary, and that the sexual revolution is more than just a theoretical concept. Bobbie has decided to lose her virginity to her skeezy boyfriend on her 17th birthday, and after they “do the deed” at a no-tell motel, she…

What a blast this movie is. A robot falls off a ship and activated on an uninhabited island—or, more accurately, an island only inhabited by animals. Programmed to find a task, any task, the robot “Roz” finds resistance from the nervous, untrusting animals, until an accident occurs and it accidentally crushes a nest, killing an entire goose family except for one egg. When the egg hatches, Roz has its task: raise the goose and teach it to swim and fly…

Belle & Sebastian film festival, film #2! So what is “Fans Only”? It’s a look back at B&S’s early years from their formation through the 2002 release of “Storytelling,” an appropriate-in-hindsight ending point as it covers their years signed to Jeepster while Isobel Campbell was in the band, when the band still made intimate music before Campbell’s departure and the band going bigger and poppier with 2003’s “Dear Catastrophe Waitress.” It’s a sort-of documentary with a mishmash of personal photos, home…