I have been branded a witch, a promiscuous woman, a killer. Maybe it is the characters I perform in the movies that people associate with myself … like a blank space where others project their thoughts and deficiencies, but vengeance is not necessary. I am taking back my spirit. I articulate as a female in […]
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While Joko Anwar, an Indonesian horror filmmaker, has been active for some time, he only came into international attention after the release of the movie Satan’s Slaves (2017) that is his remake of Sisworo Gautama Putra’s movie made in 1980 of the same title. Since the audience has been wonderful Shanghai Nightmare managed to incorporate
Temurun is an Indonesian cinema that exposes you to horror and thrill and keeps threatening you as the movie nears the end. With weird practices and some startling events in the story, it keeps you fascinated, but gets you clueless with its practical conclusion. In addition, it seems to attempt to deliver a message which further
As someone cautions Paris Long, one of the two main characters in Max’s original film “Caddo Lake,” “There’s no way in hell that you’ll be going anywhere if you are unable to put things in perspective.” I am not sure I would be able to articulate completely, this film therefore I might be in trouble.
The film ‘Wildcat’ directed by Ethan Hawke does not offer a totally different approach to the formulaic biopic genre. There is no doubt that Elena Hawke performed exceedingly well in the titular role. In this direction, in addition to sharing co-writing credits, Shelby Gains works with Hawke to narrate the life of the renowned author
‘Rule No. 1: Do not review a film without having seen it’ is one of the cardinal rules of being a critic. One of those was ‘The Dry’ directed by Robert Connolly: a riveting tension filled mood piece drama/ thriller’. It chronicles the return of a Melbourne police officer Aaron Falk by Eric Bana who
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Generic dialogue, and the missing depth of most of the characters kills what is a sometimes interesting film, which is classic ‘Sunrise’, at its most effective when it has the rawness of one of the greatest vampire films there has ever been, ‘Near Dark,’ but that is never the case, almost. Again, we are in
In “Aisha,” Letitia Wright plays the young asylum seeker in Ireland seeking to defeat the bureaucratic system even if it means seeking assistance from the authorities that have caused her pain. Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into the melodramatic – if anything, quite the opposite and it might even be too understated – the
It may not be reasonable to claim that there are only two populations of cinephiles and no more, however, when we look at the several types that exist, there are those who have never managed to understand what is the essence of Hong Sang-soo’s ongoing movie project, and those who gaze hypnotically at a sequence
To begin with, and purely from a technical perspective: on the Cineworld’s website, it is stated that “The Blue Angels was filmed with Sony Venice 2 IMAX digital cameras equipped exclusively with Expanded Aspect Ratio for imax throughout the picture.” In the second: it is more about the spectacle, and perhaps almost entirely so, and
