Before we even begin this review, I have to get it off my chest that Air Force One Down starring Katherine McNamara has quite literally escaped my radar and I wasn’t looking forward to this movie at all when I switched on my television. I mean, McNamara has only starred in some rom-coms and TV […]
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Harvest: It’s been nine years since Athina Rachel Tsangari directed her last movie, “Chevalier”, a scathing contemporary satire on toxic masculinity and senseless measuring contests. Many changes have taken place in Greek writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s third feature film, “Harvest” – her first film in English, her first adaptation and perhaps her biggest and most
There is no cause for confusion in the rather strange matters of film financing; a movie say, “5lbs of Pressure” takes place in Manhattan while it is produced in Manchester, England for some reasons. While the reasoning seems to hold well on the face of it, perhaps the industrial city in the UK is less
The Clean Up Crew: Let’s say you’re on a murder scene clean up and you apprehensively check a suitcase stuffed with cash. What would an average person do in these circumstances? Probably, one has watched several action movies and thinks there are implicit consequences of fleeing with the money. That, however, has not deterred Siobhan
The Hopeful: Followers of Christ learn that their hope is to be anchored in Him. This is through reading the bible, praying, attending church, and interacting with one another. While we follow Christ, we feel the love He has for us. Manual in hand, we also understand and learn that the Lord Jesus shall one
Much like the works of Whit Stillman and Woody Allen, A New York story also centers on love transcending class boundaries. New York still imparts a magical charm intermingled with young lovers roaming cities in different seasons. During my teenage years, it was an appealing romantic aesthetic but in the last couple of years, it
High Tide: Writer-director Marco Calvani’s debut feature “High Tide” is an earnest and tenderhearted story of a young undocumented gay Brazilian Lourenço (played by Marco Pigossi) who is counting his remaining hours in town before living in an uncertain future. While the film possesses pictorial narrative patterns reminiscent of a homoerotic world that Claire Denis’s
We are obsessed with Boot Camp. Gina Musa’s original novel has been excellently transformed, and it appears that this film is more than it seems. It is about the strength of the will to look for one’s way in the world whatever the odds. Are you ready? On the surface, Boot Camp appears to be
Netflix’s Thelma the Unicorn is much closer to the dark adult animation series BoJack Horseman and quite much further from Illumination’s boring Sing series. The myths of originality are however not lost due to the inclusion of acid humor and a bunch of eccentric characters. Based on the author Aaron Blabey’s popular 2015 picture book,
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WARNING: Any information that may give away a key part of the film ‘Milk & Serial’ is fueled in this text and will reveal any spoilers present in the film. Until now, one would never have imagined that Curry Barker would someday have the biggest box office success of the year. Barker’s work ‘Milk &
