Regular readers will be aware that there’s no way in which I would leave a review of this film with just one word! I have to say, I was feeling a bit pretentious during the first few minutes of the movie, thinking that it might be a bit too artistic for a simple Saturday night […]
Little Children takes the audience through the suburbs of America filled with violence, desire, and forgiveness in Field’s second film directed by Todd Field. The film is slated to release with Tár, which says has not yet premiered. The story is narrated from the eyes of Sarah (played by Kate Winslet) who is dealing with
When I was watching National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, I became nostalgic for the innocence found in “American Pie” where human semen was somehow baked into a pie. In “NatLampVW”, dog semen is conveniently sprinkled on top of a pastry. Are we simply biding our time until the protagonists of teenage gross-out comedies are implanting semen
The movie “The DUFF” has the decency of acknowledging John Hughes’s 1980 teen movies are its roots, even referencing the five high school stereotypes forced to attend detention together in The Breakfast Club which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. However, the movie quickly transforms into its modern-day phenomenon at a rapid pace and with captivating
“Monster’s Ball” follows a black woman and a white man who, for a time at least, take comfort in each other’s pain. Their pain is still different and so are they. This isn’t a message movie about interracial relationships, but of two people who desperately try to cope with violent deaths that shake their lives,
Paris Je T’Aime can be described simply as a film consisting of eighteen miniatures, each depicting a different part of the city of Paris. The movie is a two hour-long collage of miniature films in Paris, making the viewers feel satiated but also leaving them slightly unsatisfied due to lack of a main course. This
To be honest, I didn’t think French filmography could get any worse after the last season of Emily in Paris. I was wrong, very wrong. Somehow I still managed to dread this film. Maybe it’s a ‘me thing’ but, when has any iteration of French humor ever landed? Although it is possible I am frustrated
The film Neo Sora’s Happyend shows a preview of their social conditions before introducing any of the characters. Happyend is also striking in its teenage drama and political critique, though the film never successfully attempts to resolve or blend these two opposing scales of society. The film envisions a not-too-distant future marked by climate change,
In the past, films were hardly longer than an average spin class. Movies were strictly capped at ninety minutes, which for some reason, forced directors and writers to tell stories more efficiently (which, to my eyes at least, is an art form that seems to have been lost nowadays) but, back in the day, that
A striking dehumanization which is a built-in feature, not a bug, of the United States immigration system regarding asylum seekers is that it expects them to prove the extent of their suffering an applicant must show that they merit existing in their home country by risking death in a manner specific enough to be granted
