All Shall Be Well” gives a rather harsh picture. It is a well planned, deftly handled and socially relevant film – about deep insults, inequality and homosexuality. Ray Yeung is the one who wrote and directed the film as well whiles it revolves around the fleeting glimpse of love caused by autumn seen from Angie […]
The promo materials for the legal drama ‘The Goldman Case’ point it out to you that the filmmakers are aware that even the title of the movie might strike you to another famous case. In the email I received announcing this movie’s stateside rollout: ‘Twenty years before the O.J. Simpson case, the Goldman trial is
This exchange in the middle of Robert Kolodny’s nimble biopic “The Featherweight” brings out the underlying vulnerabilities in this tragic character’s figure to a T. The man of course is the two times featherweight world champion Willie Pep who fought over two hundred and thirty times and won more than his fair share of those
In the case of the movie “All Happy Families,” despite the over-used symbolism and pointless passive behavior of the film’s narrative, solid acting from an unbeatable cast is sufficient. The title is in attestation to the famous first line that is embodied in the book Anna Karenina where it is written that all the happy
Reiterating a span of two decades, the story of Alessandra Lacorazza’s ‘In the Summers is divided into four chapters and revolves around two sisters’ visits to their dysfunctional father as he struggles between the anger of his children and his weaker self, over the years, in Las Cruces New Mexico, which fundamentally changes their childhood
What could be worse than the shells that other people place us in our lives? The shells that we place on ourselves. This notion of invisible baggage that people possess, in addition to normal stuff, such as insecurity and grief and its more abstract sister ‘trauma’ forms the essence of Adam Elliot’s remarkable directional massacre
Errol Morris, a once advance outsider to the system of the making of docs, has become its most successful doc maker, directing his attention to people or issues that, in all likelihood, most of us would prefer not to focus on. At times they are ridiculously amusing and so bad they can only be laughed
‘Despicable Me’ begins with acceptance of the fact, that there is always something fascinating about villains and that is what motivates the portrayal of a character called Gru who, for example, comes to Starbucks and freeze-drys everybody in the queue and bursts the balloons in the hands of the kids. Many a James Bond villain
Sasquatch Sunset: In a children’s book of Yeti’s stories, four extremely thin tall creatures appear lumbering in a forest. They walk; they consume food; they construct, and they do it all over again. The gaggle makes use of and shares various unbecoming sounds including growls, screams and whoops yet we are not included in these
It is commonly said as a courtesy that speaking ill of the dead is in bad taste. Sometimes, it makes perfect sense to avoid speaking poorly of anyone, and particularly, of the living. But for women who are angry with younger men and wish to seek redress from them, this becomes very delicate, as one
