Now that’s a little creepy: Sander Maran’s Chainsaws Were Singing, which was set to be the opening film for the current Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF), won the award for Best Estonian Genre Film on Sunday. It likewise went home with the Audience Award as well. “Haapsalu had its usual share of chainsaw […]
King Baby, the film produced by Kit Redstone and Arran Shearing, was a project that could have flopped quite easily. The story in King Baby is a parody of the aggressive instincts that women possess, and the men and women are veneered in social constructs that mask the rising violence. It is not only a
Gunfighter Paradise: This strange little tale speaks about Stoner (Braz Cubas), an assassin who has recently come back to North Carolina after the death of his mother. The elderly woman left for her son a series of notes, written in a code that will only lead him on a winding journey through hell. He meets
Oru Sarkar Ulpannam emerged in the media when the censor board sensationally requested the filmmakers to omit the term ‘Bharatha’ from the original title Oru Bharatha Sarkar Ulppannam. After watching the film, however, all one feels is the sense of loss and attempts to understand why they did not try harder with the revising committee.
Sai Ram Shankar, younger brother of Puri Jagannath, has not quite made it in the film industry, having been working hard for it. To date, he has not been able to break through and now he is coming up with a film titled Vey Dharuvey. Directed by N Ravi Reddy, Vey Dharuvey movie will hit
“Setengah Hati” is probably the most outstanding work from Hasto Broto so far. This is well-achieved since the film, whose script was also reworked by script fim writer Abdur Arsyad, comes out well as a drama-comedy. But Hasto and Arsyad do have to do some level of hard-work in adapting “Setengah Hati” to a feature
The film “Poolman,” which is also the first filmed directed by Chris Pine is an eccentric character comedy about the residents of Los Angeles while at the same time poking fun at sleuthing 1940s genres. Executive producer Pine also played the title role, Darren Barrenman, who Ian Gotler helped him co-write as well. Today, Darren
“Prom Dates,” a story about 2 teenage girls getting into scrapes before prom parties sounds as crude as an R rated teen comedy but proves warm and heartfelt. While this narrative technique is ancient, it reached its peak in the 21 st century with the movie ‘Superbad’ and further advanced when social media became rampart
Bodyguard for Sweetheart: There are certain films that, love them or hate them, become critical cultural holes in one’s gradual appreciation of films and such — those films that you always somehow overlooked or skipped intentionally, or simply because you had not been of the appropriate age when they came out. For me, it was
Turbo flaunts the fighting spirit of a genre’s creature and gets praise for that from the arrogant thugs applauding from the sidelines (e.g. “What a bloody cliche”, “classic” etc.). This might have been thought of as a theatre-erupting moment in the narrative of Midhun Manuel Thomas rather. On screen it sounds more of a convenience
