The Room Next Door: I heard a quote once, “There are no bad Mike Leigh films.” I have also said this as the days to the public screening of the latest film in his series in Toronto and the Ebert Director Award presentation attracted. Nevertheless, this should also be written about Pedro Almodovar, who decided […]
It cab be said that verbosity is the only trait of the characters in this film as all of them ubeat each other about their vast range of literary expertise. Except for literatures of Miller’s Girl, it appears as if Nabokov is unknown to everyone of the characters. Had they known properly, they would know
Many things burden Aza Holmes, the troubled young lady of Hannah Marks’ Turtles All the Way Down, but none troubles her more than the fact that there are bacteria. The idea of such creatures, their ability to breach a body with ease and the infections one can catch-troubles her. For example, she is afraid of
There was most likely no film more successful during the pandemic as the Spanish Dystopian actor thriller “The Thick of It”. The idea of prisoners in Gattaca, brutally segregated in cells which perched like a giant slab of food and awaiting will not seem too outlandish for many who spent long stretches indoors nursing the
As Quentin Tarantino found himself in a throne of pop culture during the 90s, many of his cloned filmmakers almost choked to death trying to get the same ideas that he had. There is a notion in the understanding, than one would in such a situation, seek peace on the surface, and within oneself-it is
A Family Affair: As boring as this film’s title, with cutout and absurd characters who are aimed at achieving a run-of-the-mill plot, “A Family Affair” is one of the least creative franchises of Hollywood’s romantic comedies. Least last month’s streaming love drama “The Idea of You,” this movie also has a beautiful Oscar winning actress
Almost everybody in the Western Hemisphere is aware of the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church as it keenly accepts blame for its wrongdoings. Paralleling though most of the historical narratives that exist today, whiteness is also more often the great eraser of facts, and when it comes to crimes against victims of color, they
The term “Immaculate” is applicable as a homage to an older Italian horror while also being a contemporary criticism on woman’s possession and control over her body, however, these two cannot be compared with the former and the latter does not have the stature within the story to make one care about this subject. Star
At the very onset of Descendants: The Rise of Red, we see a royal proclamation which states that the elite boarding school for Walt Disney’s classic characters would now be accepting a new class of VKs–Villain’s Kids. More familiar as the children of the Disney movies’ evil villains. Admission letters were or rather are waved
Christopher Reeve, famous for his role as Superman in the original Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story films, was riding at the Commonwealth Park riding center in Culpeper, Virginia, on May 27, 1997, when a one meter tall, W-shaped fence was shown to his horse who refused to leap over. Practically every inch he fell resulted
