Lights Out: A drifting ex-soldier turns into an underground fighter and now seeks vindication against his oppressor, a crime boss, his hired killers, and corrupt law enforcement officials, through revenge. – Blood and glory in a celda. The friction grows because she is a petty drug dealer and Duffy is a struggling MMA fighter; but […]
The slow-burn thriller subgenre seems to be almost a staple in the independent movie industry, and Jaron and Olivia Lanier’s Haunted By Her Name is one appealing experience into the genre. But, even just calling this movie a thriller would be an injustice, because it is so diverse and rich in the way its story
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“Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a perfect remake, and within its first few minutes, director Wade Allain-Marcus has already changed the narrative. Not leaving a beat to his modern version of what is now a nine nineties classic, he prepares an innocent girl for somewhere she doesn’t want to be and for something
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The Last Kumite: Michael Rivers, who is a martial artist tries to fight for the purpose of rescuing his daughter from an illegal fighting tournament. Along the way he discovers other martial artists too have fought to save their loved ones. The Last Kumite, directed Sean David Lowe which is an NBA focused YouTube host,
Overseeing the most recent Flora George film project titled Lola, Nicola Peltz Beckham managed to create something suitable for Twitter’s dislike mob. The audience sees a drug addicted teenage girl being tormented by her overly religious mother, and this girl also happens to be the protagonist, left with no other options but to take care
After having witnessed so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries, I took it for granted that Hulu’s “Brats” would be just another love letter to the young stars of the ‘80s, the ones who impacted pop culture in the middle of the decade in the maelstrom we know as the 21st century. Happy to
Things take a turn for the worse when Ben DeBacker (Corey Fogelmanis), the nonbinary lead character in I Wish You All the Best, directed by Tommy Dorfman, comes out to his parents. The fragmented dialogue evokes a feeling of anticipation. As melancholy is etched on the characters’ faces we see Ben going through notes on
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The Code: The show is about a sexless couple who go through ups and downs in their relationship during the early days of the pandemic. After Eugene Kotlyarenko’s film Spree divided and impressed (virtual) audiences at Fantasia Film Festival 2020 and got talked about for the rest of the year, the writer/director made a strong
In Our Church Thinks We’re Dating, we meet Pastor’s daughter, Jess, who is practically the leader of all the boob friends, for some reason keeping the tub activities in a very religious circle. Although she is fond of organizing mission trips and service outings with this group of friends – particularly her hall mate Rachel
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Treasure: Lily Brett, an Australian-born novelist and essayist, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and writes about that issue and condition quite a lot. Her 2001 novel Too Many Men deals with the travels of a daughter and her father to Poland in order to uncover the father’s catastrophic history. Several themes are paramount, including
