Calvin Reeder’s “The A-Frame” is filled with well-articulated concepts yet to be developed into an effective piece of work. It is a film about the inevitability of death and embarrassing desires of running from it and how creatively, the narrative design turns towards terminal illness. But as the narrative starts exploring the Sci-Fi aspect, it […]
Like westerns, we needn’t watch genre-reared samurai characters to understand and enjoy what makes them tick. They can enlarge to include tales of moral quandaries and human pitfalls. One of the best of these, “Harakiri,” concerns a down-and-out older itinerant samurai who presents an inescapable moral quandary to the headman of a formidable clan. He
Morrisa Maltz’s second narrative Jazzy evokes the intimacy and tenderness pertaining to girlhood. The film, set within the same universe as the director’s recognized first feature The Unknown Country, narrates six years of its protagonist’s life trying to find friends, new love and being exposed to small pleasures of growing up. Indeed Jazz’s storyline is
The Return: Because of the unique opportunity of watching more than two hundred films in a single festival, you begin to draw certain thematic and narrative links. This is for this type of delivery Leo Tolstoy’s line from Anna Karenina rang a bell: ‘Every unhappy family is unhappy in its unique way, every happy family
As the narrative suggests, Five Blind Dates is the first feature film made in Australia by Prime Video, which seeks to inject some Crazy Rich Asians flair into the hearts of the fans, this Valentine’s Day. Lia, a character she alternatively co-writtes and plays, is a young Asian female resident in Sydney with struggling tea
“Lift” is incredibly generic, very boring and quite forgettable too, just like any other film titled ‘Lift, the kind of glossy action film that moves really fast the way Netflix movies do, even if there is no requirement for it. It is not crassly silly like ‘Red Notice’, for example, but rather more on par
Exhibiting Forgiveness, a film produced by and directed by Titus Kaphar, features screen actors, such as André Holland, John Earl Jelks, Andra Day, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ian Foreman. Drawing inspiration from familial torment and internal conflict, Kaphar’s work looks at issues such as forgiveness, responsibility, and our people’s determination. Within the suburbs, Tarrell lives with his
There is no beating around the bush here; writer/director Caroline Lindy exposes her accidentally yet therapeutically happy metatextual aspects in her film “Your Monster” – her first feature. It is a witty little film that has enough sharpness to it, certainly made long before it reversed its star, Melissa Barrera from her non-scream screen center.
Arthur the King: The term ‘sport’ has been under stated in a very small way. Adventure racing is by far the most extreme, the most demanding and the most endurance requiring sport in the world. Even an Iron Man, which is a combination of running, swimming and biking, becomes child’s play compared to this activity.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey: It has been more than four decades since audiences have been drawn to bloodbath films such as those featuring psychos with chainsaws, a lunatic in Halloween attire, a maniac wearing a hockey mask, an arsonist in a striped shirt and a fedora and finally, one whose face is pierced with S&M
