Phil Volken’s Dead Sea tries to combine the crime horror aspect but unfortunately becomes lost in a thick murky storyline that is unsupported. It had the right potential but it’s ruined by cliché plot twists, flat characters, and a dull setting which never manages to create the horror it aims for. Although it has a […]
Opening with stabbing shots, David Mackenzie’s “Relay”, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a tight thriller. Riz Ahmed plays Tom, who plays a sort of middleman between the corporations and the people exposing the corporations. Tom is an extremely secretive character operating in a morally grey area until he
The American Society of Magical Negroes: It’s quite interesting that there would be people shouting 2024, for this year the episode ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ came up with the image of James Baldwin – yes that James Baldwin who wrote the words – “I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro;
The Painter this drama tells the story of an A former CIA special operations officer drawn back to a violent life when he is stalked by a lethal black ops program and a woman he can’t shake off. One of the characters in The Painter, which is directed by Kimani Ray Smith and was scripted
Beautiful Wedding: The unsophisticated and horrified viewers were treated to the release of the film Beautiful Disaster in 2023. It’s part of this weird era of film where everyone just wants to come up with their own variation of Fifty Shades AKA Take bad fanfiction, sand off all the serial numbers and base an entire
“Orion and the Dark”, a Netflix adaptation and Dreamworks co-production, excels in storytelling and heart better than most of Pixar’s recent outings. The so boldly lifts classic Pixar’s playbook of how to make human characters out of the impossible objects, in “Inside Out”, “Toy Story” and for that there is even a straightforward quote from
Some films are bad stupid films, and the bad stupid films in question have the audacity to give you a sense of anger that you have wasted a good two hours of your life that can never be regained — as pieces don’t come together to form a reasonably satisfying whole (cough). Other films, on
Fake conversations and depictions should not go in a screenplay. I am stating this because it is evident throughout in ‘Red Right Hand’ that terrible writing is supported by ‘talented’ performers. No one ever should be asking them to swallow camera. It is disgusting. In the opening sequence of ‘Red Right Hand’, we see one
The premise of a solitary killer stalking a group of teenagers has been the template for the slasher genre for many years. In the last few decades however, the emphasis of the teen movies, and the co-ed for that matter, has shifted. Nevertheless, it attempts to use the same formula in #AMFAD: All My Friends
The 2010 animated film ‘Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate’ is remembered for its fantastic stories of heroism filled with humor and drama and voiced by stars like Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and David Cross. Cut to fourteen years, and this ‘original’ film is as boring as anything one can expect, with
