One more week, one more straight-to-digital action thriller, and the list goes on. Recently, these typical casts comprise either Aaron Eckhart or Olga Kurylenko, and well so happens that this film Jesse V. Johnson’s Chief of Station has both. (It actually is the movie where it stars Eckhart in the main character and Kurylenko who […]
Created in their video department The New York Times, and based largely on its reporting content, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a how-to guide about Louis C.K. The story of a standup comic who turned into a lowbudget extreme self-revealing filmmaker. He went on to be a writer, director, producer and one of the principal actors in
When it comes to characters, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is one of the most pleasant painted story books human animation can offer and, hopefully, will not lose to other media. Paper & Soul is directed and co-written by French filmmaker Benoît Chieux (with writing partner Alain Gagnol), and produced in Koproduktion with
The children’s imagination gave birth to the idea of imaginary friends. With just an empty room and some random odds and ends, children can dream up the most outlandish adventures. And every child at that age has an imaginary friend to satisfy his or her needs. In his animated drama ‘The Imaginary’, Yoshiyuki Momose explores
Not much more than yet another assembly line typeproduced, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story appears to be a bit hollow. Most of the time, the most difficult task is determining exactly what the filmmakers meant to achieve, let alone whether it was possible to do so at all. Typically, the last term in quotation marks is
Let us first settle in our minds one evident thing: Yes, it hasn’t taken us too long to get a film for the prominent queen of Austria, empress Elisabeth of Austria Sisi as she is mostly known in public. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage'(2022), featuring a cold and rather too serious for the occasion
Each day, coming from work ready to park his car in his driveway, as a matter of routine, Xavier Atibon Nazaire finds one of his neighbors leaving his home while speaking loudly on his cell phone. At times they exchange ‘hellos’ at other times they silently go through what appears to be this ritual that
From the moment the Mother Couch film begins and Dave (Ewan McGregor) hurries through a vacant parking lot, the picture “Mother, Couch” is a little dull. Dressed in these black suit, Dave strides into the furniture shop, which display antiques that are all painstakingly crafted. At the reception area is a vivacious woman called Bella
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love” runs for two hours and is purely focused on yearning, search for the self, and infatuation. Sophia (Magalie Lépine Blondeau has an outstanding magnetism) works as a philosophy teacher. She is stable in the relationship, but it has reached stagnation, with her rich boyfriend-turned spouse Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume)
Watching two men argue nonsensically while taking a walk in a forest in Michigan is not that captivating. Nevertheless, screenwriter, director, and actor Joel Potrykus hits the bulls eye of their humanity in ‘Vulcanizadora’-where slowly a very disturbing agreement unfolds only to go terribly wrong at some point. It is the terrible quality of the
