Drama

After successfully completing the Marvel Cinematic Universe project styled “Captain Marvel,” for which they were helmed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who consider themselves more as indie filmmakers, their affection for the East Bay late 80s goes overrated in “Freaky Tales.” What does this have to do with a confused but 10 year old […]

“The Book of Clarence” which is religious in nature and is done brilliantly by Jeymes Samuel, the seemingly all-knowing producer is captivating but devoid of plot. Set in the year 33A.D. Jerusalem, the focal character of the film Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) who is a street hustler, is treated in Samuel’s script as a ‘girl on […]

Ameena (UA), a production of Kumar Raj, tells the story of an actress who plays the role of a rape victim in a stage-play based on a real-life incident. Meena (Rekha Rana) enacts as Ameena – a rape victim in a stage-play scripted by Aftab Hasnain (Ananth Narayan Mahadevan) inspired from the real life incident […]

In the middle of Jeffrey Darling’s crime thriller He Went That Way, I … was in this particular scene that I have to battle most of the time through my anger trying to convince myself that this genre-mashup is “just a movie.” In the film now, Bobby Falls the 19 year old serial killer had […]

All Shall Be Well” gives a rather harsh picture. It is a well planned, deftly handled and socially relevant film – about deep insults, inequality and homosexuality. Ray Yeung is the one who wrote and directed the film as well whiles it revolves around the fleeting glimpse of love caused by autumn seen from Angie […]

The promo materials for the legal drama ‘The Goldman Case’ point it out to you that the filmmakers are aware that even the title of the movie might strike you to another famous case. In the email I received announcing this movie’s stateside rollout: ‘Twenty years before the O.J. Simpson case, the Goldman trial is […]

This exchange in the middle of Robert Kolodny’s nimble biopic “The Featherweight” brings out the underlying vulnerabilities in this tragic character’s figure to a T. The man of course is the two times featherweight world champion Willie Pep who fought over two hundred and thirty times and won more than his fair share of those […]

In the case of the movie “All Happy Families,” despite the over-used symbolism and pointless passive behavior of the film’s narrative, solid acting from an unbeatable cast is sufficient. The title is in attestation to the famous first line that is embodied in the book Anna Karenina where it is written that all the happy […]

Reiterating a span of two decades, the story of Alessandra Lacorazza’s ‘In the Summers is divided into four chapters and revolves around two sisters’ visits to their dysfunctional father as he struggles between the anger of his children and his weaker self, over the years, in Las Cruces New Mexico, which fundamentally changes their childhood […]

What could be worse than the shells that other people place us in our lives? The shells that we place on ourselves. This notion of invisible baggage that people possess, in addition to normal stuff, such as insecurity and grief and its more abstract sister ‘trauma’ forms the essence of Adam Elliot’s remarkable directional massacre […]