The grief-stricken love story owes its popularity to ‘The Notebook’, but it began to ‘die’ with the wide variety of adaptations of Nicholas Sparks’ books by his copycats. While viewing John Crowley’s skillfully made “We Will In Time”, which was screened during the Toronto International Film Festival, I was touched by how it draws a […]
Up until a point, not too distant, this orthodoxy was difficult to imagine – some practitioners may say it was really about as close as possible to impossible. In her 1995 documentary, The Lonely Planet, Susannah Grant presents the former Australian, Holly Willoughby, as a ‘woman who rides on Bruno’. Long ago, world literature of
There are a few things that can be said on behalf of the high-school drama “Bad Genius.” This is a remake of a cult 2017 Thai movie of the same name. Writer/director J.C Lee particularly broadens the unique plot of the last–name–gifted student assisting her rich friends in cheating college entrance exams, to make the
The aspect of world-building is measured in “Falling Stars” and it tactfully hints at horrors beyond what is depicted on the screen. This demonstrates the effectiveness and the shortcomings of the “less is more” approach. If witches are not harvested and ritualistically appeased, they fall to Earth in the form of shooting stars. Richard Karpala
“Superstar” Rajinikanth’s new Tamil film “Vettaiyan,” or “Hunter” in English, showcases the veteran’s immense talent. He acts in the lead role of an Indian policeman in this gory thriller. With that said, it will take you some time to understand the worth of “Vettaiyan” and the purpose behind it, but people know everyone is on
The story of “Terrifier” is terrifyingly low-budget and ridiculously gory which has been an interesting journey for the industry as a whole. The low budget and extremely gory nature of these horror films have proven that not every genre fan desires “elevated horror.” Sometimes all you want is a slaughter fest, which is exactly what
As one of Apple TV+’s new series “Disclaimer” starts, one of the protagonists and award-winning documentary journalist Catherine Ravenscroft aka Cait Blanchett is being introduced. Christiane Amanpour raises the warning that the journalist should, “Beware of narrative and form.” In fact, the broader theme of the seventh episode multi-part series of Alfonso Cuarón’s novel is
During the earlier years of World War II, the locals could only hope for the best while hiding in underground bunkers and having their chances of survival determined by Hitler’s bombings in Britain. Director Steve McQueen’s latest film ‘Blitz’ is centered on the events that occurred during this war. ‘Blitz’ begins with a firefighter searching
As with Folk Horror films, ‘The Babadook and ‘Under The Skin’, there are unsettling themes in Benjamin Barfoot’s psychological horror that depict the preservation of unwanted denial after the bereavement of a dear one. Sudden death, such as a car accident secretly carries a huge impact on the mental psyche of people. Derived from horror,
The collectivization of Amazon workers in the the spring of 2022 at their Staten Island plant was regarded as a milestone in US labor history. It marked the first instance of this corporate retailer being unionized in the entire American region. The notable thing is that “ALU” managed to gather votes of consensual support from
