Black Venus is an intriguing biopic that depicts the story of Saartjie Baartman, a Khoikoi woman brought from Cape Town to London in 1810 by Hendrick Caezar. In the year 1810, a Khoikoi woman by the name of Saartjie Baartman, portrayed by Yahima Torres, was taken from Cape Town to London by someone named Hendrick […]
Frameline will host the premier of More Beautiful for Having Been Broken on June 30th. The movie centers on an emotional narrative narrative revolving three distinct women who cross paths in a small lakeside town. These three woman are also grappling with their own unique struggles. A single mother with a medically fragile son, an
What do you get when you combine one single, always-working mother, a weird old man with his endless money and a charming reporter. And let’s not forget the cute little boy. Real life? NOPE. Maybe if you toss in alcohol and change the weird old man into a woman, you might be able to find
The phrase “It’s a man’s world” originates from somewhere around 1954 and meets Kenji Mizoguchi’s movie “The Woman In The Rumour.” While browsing the movie, it seems like there was a lot of focus on the buffoons and drunks that had no major consequence. Men of power having no one to answer for their deeds
Morbidity is somehow a part of being human. Often the need to rationalize an interest in darker things, true crime for instance, tends to fall under the saying “the lady doth protest too much.” This is also why it is refreshing to note that Pascal Plante’s Quebecois techno-thriller “Red Rooms” offers no explanations or excuses
“The Greatest of All Time,” is a new Tamild language cinema action show which speaks about the eternally young superstar, Vijay. There is a sudden shocking twist around the middle that I would like to bring up. I will have to spoil you a bit, but let me assure you it is for the greater
The pressure that comes with trying to achieve certain beauty ideals and an obsession with youth is not a new phenomenon. But Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” comes out alongside the defining period of Ozempic, where a single shot claims to address weight problems individuals struggled with over the past decade but did not want to
Grief destroys the self image we have built for ourselves. It’s merciless and relentless. It brings down the defenses that we build within ourselves, which often serve as an easy way to define us as mother, daughter, or sister. And that’s very interesting for Azazel Jacob’s “His Three Daughters” self-describes rather well. At the beginning,
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is a stuffed toy bag of a movie. It’s a return to form for Tim Burton only as he is unconcerned about form, but is later in much more interested in the scene and the images. Similarly to where he started his career. The director digs into the bag and shuffles some toys
There are few droll joys in cinema more satisfying than watching and hearing George Clooney and Brad Pitt exchange knowing looks and wry, occasionally pointed banter. They’ve appeared in several films together, but the camaraderie stuff mainly happens in the “Ocean’s” caper films directed by Steven Soderbergh. (In the Coen Brothers’ 2008 “Burn After Reading,”
