Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch may encompass several decades, languages, continents and cultures, civilizations etc., and bear themes of memory, ageing, loss and love. However its delicateness is as pleasing as the caress of butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) aged widow who owns a restaurant in Iceland goes to the doctor and reports that he […]
Damaged: At their best, at least, the audience has been treated to a walloping dose of gore in many of the countless gruesome serial killer films that emerged in the imitator bandwagon to “Se7en” thirty years back. However, good suspense and atmosphere and new narrative concepts seem much harder to come by. This is definitely
Originating from this intense and engaging escape thriller about the South Korean army between North and South Korea is entitled “Escape,” this regresses into a quick 94 minutes long. It would have easily gone higher. One such consideration is the North Korean defector who breaks free after serving 10 years in the armed forces of
With “The 4:30 Movie,” a cute coming-of-age tale combined with a rom-com movie, writer/director Kevin Smith (“Clerks III,” “Jay and Silent Reboot”) strives to evoke mildly pleasant memories and not much else. One might understand Sunny Day real estate as one that owes its recent projects squarely to his fans and hence there is a
As wind agitated the grass and the trees and inched closer to the explosive climax of “Family Portrait”, one could almost ascribe that the sound is a character itself in the film, a technique that has been used well in this particularly well directed film that is selflessly more of a surrealistic opera rather than
Out of My Mind: Shockingly, it has been nearly seven years since Wonder came out and took the children’s film and book industries by storm. It revolved around a kid with facial differences and had Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay in its cast, it was based on the book by Stephen Chbosky, was
Seattle stands to be the third most populous city in the US and also one of the biggest. It possesses great technological, cultural, as well as industrial prominence while it’s large port thrusts it into a cosmopolitan world. However in Sweetheart Deal–sweet heart deal, a refreshing documentary directed by Elisa Levine and the late Gabriel
An actress took a seat next to me at a wedding reception in London, and though effort she spoke with the plummy diction and flawless projection learnt as cheap seats at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. “You do understand,” she stuck in her surliest voice as though speaking the words of Coward that “AC-tor
In 2020, Luke Gilford, a photographer by profession, issued a book throat National Anthem that describes the queer population within the set of International Gay Rodeo Association. The photos are mesmerizing and gorgeous. Born and raised in the Southwest, Gilford was fond of rodeos since childhood. But the culture itself–masculine, often suppressive of gayness, did
Peter and Walter Kloss funded the film, with Peter Kloss penning the screenplay while the cutting-edge postmodernist filmmaker Assured “Here After” adapted primarily focuses on social dramas – following Claire Hiller Christina Britton, an American divorced woman living in Rome and teaching in a girls’ school. Claire’s daughter Robin, Who wants to be a pianist
