Long Gone Heroes: After abandoning everything: country, religion and even hope, a special forces soldier has to come back to action in order to find his niece, who happens to be a journalist who got tangentially involved in the black subcontracting that went wrong. Venezuela’s destabilized political situation makes it a perfect backdrop for a […]
A Real Pain: You will somehow get this sensation when you sit through the Q and A with the directors after the film on some post-screening festival that they’re simply explaining the film they feel like they should have made and not the one you have gone through. But Jesse Eisenberg is nothing if not
One of the 2012 releases titled “Amber Alert” was classified as a found footage type of film. It had interesting themes though it was quite poorly done (typical of most found footage films). A bunch of kids hears an Amber Alert and sees the car along the interstate Highway. They start pursuing it, resulting in
Small Things Like These, however, is free of much of the painful vocabulary and associations of Dame Peter Mullan’s scalding The Magdalene Sisters (2008), Joni Mitchell’s Where the Laundray is, which places the name given instead to the infamous workhouse systems managed by the Irish clergy. Despite The Small Things Like These having relatively little
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What could be even more frightful than having to submit oneself into the will of a God, the very notion of a God and a corresponding control is non-existent. This dichotomy of human life is portrayed well through Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s completely engrossing “Heretic”, which is a thriller identifying the fear of an
Funny enough, Drive-Away Dolls an utterly enjoyable cinematic experience, an eventful eroticism-drenched woman-empowerment B-movie one may say. You may be surprised how much this style has been missed in the Coen Brothers workout. You know: all that capricious blah blah blah mildly delicious craziness shaped last time keenly on ‘Burn After Reading (or maybe-‘Hail, Caesar!)-&,
The trailer for “Abigail” provides you with almost all the information that you are likely to be interested in about this wacky concept of a horror thriller about kidnappers who go down the slippery slope when they try and take in a child vampire of a ballerina character and fail. Alisha Weir is quite delightful
When a title is, as I would put it, as a sledgehammer like Nightbitch, and the premise is generally even more ridiculous than a woman who is so lonely, cut off, and sacrificed in motherhood, that she turns into a dog, one certainly does not wish for a film, which is too restrained. Yet when
David Ayer is the director of The Beekeeper and Jason Statham plays the lead role of Adam Clay, who is a former member of an obscured group called The Beekeepers. Their purpose is doing different operations to save the planet which is known as The Hive among its members. At this point in time, Clay
There’s not much horror that can scare the viewers in E.L. Katz’s tepid horror thriller “Azrael.” Just like that, we are thrown into a forest where a boy and a girl appear to be in love and at times annoying to each other. However, something seems amiss in their reality. Stealth and utter stillness are
