The post-apocalyptic story is based on creatures who, along with survivors, fought against each other. Director George Nolfi pays attention to detail, and his dramatic lunging also looks great. It’s fair to say it is directed in the same vein, but more professionally. Most science fiction movies get moronic when attempting to direct with more […]
Magicians always say there is more magic in Andrea Arnold’s films, and we remain in the action when Arnold’s character in “Bird”, which is a reworking of the themes that she has used once, also breathes the magical idea that anything in her film can truly happen. Arnold, on the other hand, delves once more
The sound of church bells ringing forms the starting and ending sequence of the story “Small Things Like These.” The bells ring while the characters of the story are getting ready for Christmas which shows the ambiance of the town as snowy and the atmosphere somewhat rustic which caters to an Irish Town full of
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There’s a lot of ambition behind Amazon MGM’s action-adventure Christmas movie ‘Red One’, to start with. As the movie tells the story of Santa Claus in a rather modern light, twisting the character into a bodybuilder, the movie sure has a lot of plot holes. And the shift in imagery surrounding the movie has gotten
Each day, coming from work ready to park his car in his driveway, as a matter of routine, Xavier Atibon Nazaire finds one of his neighbors leaving his home while speaking loudly on his cell phone. At times they exchange ‘hellos’ at other times they silently go through what appears to be this ritual that
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love” runs for two hours and is purely focused on yearning, search for the self, and infatuation. Sophia (Magalie Lépine Blondeau has an outstanding magnetism) works as a philosophy teacher. She is stable in the relationship, but it has reached stagnation, with her rich boyfriend-turned spouse Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume)
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From the moment the Mother Couch film begins and Dave (Ewan McGregor) hurries through a vacant parking lot, the picture “Mother, Couch” is a little dull. Dressed in these black suit, Dave strides into the furniture shop, which display antiques that are all painstakingly crafted. At the reception area is a vivacious woman called Bella
With “The 4:30 Movie,” a cute coming-of-age tale combined with a rom-com movie, writer/director Kevin Smith (“Clerks III,” “Jay and Silent Reboot”) strives to evoke mildly pleasant memories and not much else. One might understand Sunny Day real estate as one that owes its recent projects squarely to his fans and hence there is a
As wind agitated the grass and the trees and inched closer to the explosive climax of “Family Portrait”, one could almost ascribe that the sound is a character itself in the film, a technique that has been used well in this particularly well directed film that is selflessly more of a surrealistic opera rather than
Out of My Mind: Shockingly, it has been nearly seven years since Wonder came out and took the children’s film and book industries by storm. It revolved around a kid with facial differences and had Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay in its cast, it was based on the book by Stephen Chbosky, was
