Without Blood: Angelina Jolie has taken a different approach in her fifth project as a director, With Blood, which can be described as a reset or a new beginning for her as a filmmaker. It does not intend to be derogatory but rather highlights the fact that, regardless of global conflicts, many such films have […]
Screaming with passion for visual aesthetics is Paula Ortiz as evidenced in some of her earlier works such as Chrysalis[+], The Bride[+](which was screened in the Zabaltegi section of the San Sebastian Film Festival nine yrs ago) and Teresa[+]. Now she goes back to the same film festival, this time with The Red Virgin [+]
Gioachino Rossini’s opera from the 19th century, The Thieving Magpie, portrays the life of a maid set to die after her employers come across a missing silver piece. She’s already on the gallows and just as she awaits the release of the trapdoors, the real thief is exposed: a magpie that took silver from sevearl
Arena Wars: After having watched several movies of a certain major or independent studio, one can be able to predict how the next films will be. In most instances, once a studio’s brand is established, received movies are produced with that audience in mind. If I go to watch a movie produced by Disney, I
Latency: As professional gamer Hana, a striking opponent of profound agoraphobia, starts to appreciate and fantasize about the brand new hardware that stimulates her game in a visual way, she does not know whether the hardware is gratifying her with power, or it is making her submissively obey. James Croke’s AI-centric film, Latency, depicts AI
The Firing Squad is a biographical drama film that is faith based and it is PG-13 rated for drug references, violent content and thematic elements. Parents: There are no graphic representations of shooting somebody to death – people are shown shooting at them and it is apprehended that they are shot. However, a few episode
Peter Five Eight: You, reader — let me be clear, the real you, not the generic one who has always been referred to as the “reader” — how do you find the performance of Kevin Spacey in Michael Zaiko Hall’s Peter Five Eight, an indie crime film released recently? Zaiko Hall recounted to The Independent,
Stranger in the Woods: Olivia (Holly Kenney, who also penned this film) is on a heavy dose of medication following an attempted suicide, or as she puts it, an unprovoked attack in her home. Her best friend Sam (Brendin Brown) proposes a trip to the mountains with Olivia and her friends, and decides to take
“Deadly Justice,” is a B-grade thriller film, hackneyed with a cliché storyline, poor editing, subpar scoring and insipid performances in it to the point that one starts to wonder — where did the money to hustle the production, or at least make it less awful, go? It was filmed and set in Biloxi. Didn’t the
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. The new film “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat,” directed by Tina Mabry, in the first hour, is a charming and overdramatic story of three black women’s friendship which has survived over a number of decades. Featuring the plot of the same-named novel written by Edward
