Self Reliance, which marks the directorial debut of Jake Johnson from ‘New Girl’ and ‘Minx’, was not born because of COVID – well, perhaps. It’s a concept he has been throwing about for several years. But the virus and lock down that followed gave him all the time he needed to execute it. Luckily, it […]
You could suppose that after a film like Lycan Colony, would be the last thing that director Rob Roy wants to do, is make another werewolf film. But you would be wrong, he’s back with American Werewolves, not in London or Paris, just American Werewolves. I suppose An American Werewolf in Pine Grove, PA just
The Blumhouse production’s newest chapter is called ‘Imaginary’, with the name of Jeff Wadlow’ as the Jonathan’s producer of ‘Truth of Dare’. Blumhouse seems to be hit or miss and in my eyes, ‘Imaginary’ is another fill-up in a list of mediocres. The film suffers from the plague of excessive plot synopsis and premise overload
In the USA Capital, Washington DC, people visit historic sites every other day. For example, the very first scenes in the film “War Game” depict a man staring through the windshield of a car at a Capitol building, and later, at the Washington Monument. But it isn’t some traveller who’s trying to snap some iconic
“Hundreds of Beavers” is an extremely erratic nearly a silent picture of a ‘slap spark’ and a non-comic book adaptation of a rare type in which a 19th-century frontier trapper shows defiance toward nature. The expectations raised up by the title are properly fulfilled by the film. As far as I know, this is one
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it’ll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran the place found interesting and switched lineups every day or two. There
Between the Temples: Nathan Silver begins his “Between the Temples” with a loud, keening blast of a shofar. If you have not heard the sound before, simply picture a rather low seclusion, with the head slumped forward over the vanity deck, face down on the wheel, and you will be in the ballpark. It is
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to vanquish,” is stated by one of the main characters of the Crossing film, Lia – middle aged stern woman from the Georgian city of Batumi who has migrated to the Turkish Capital Aiport Almati. As this Crossing film is sad he has to come to this conclusion at
There’s a popular belief among film critics that the suburbs are awful. It’s high time the critics should watch this movie. The ideal nuclear families that possess McMansions are at times far from being ideal. The new domestic setting is not exactly fresh, but such settings, which are so interesting and fun to behold, are
Thien (Le Phong Vu) is young videographer of weddings and loves his great free time in or out of Saigon with friends. The contemplative drama of Pham Thien An ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ is about Tragedies as it explores the transfiguration of timeless binaries of truth and faith and the search for meaning in
