Overseeing the most recent Flora George film project titled Lola, Nicola Peltz Beckham managed to create something suitable for Twitter’s dislike mob. The audience sees a drug addicted teenage girl being tormented by her overly religious mother, and this girl also happens to be the protagonist, left with no other options but to take care […]
Things take a turn for the worse when Ben DeBacker (Corey Fogelmanis), the nonbinary lead character in I Wish You All the Best, directed by Tommy Dorfman, comes out to his parents. The fragmented dialogue evokes a feeling of anticipation. As melancholy is etched on the characters’ faces we see Ben going through notes on
The Code: The show is about a sexless couple who go through ups and downs in their relationship during the early days of the pandemic. After Eugene Kotlyarenko’s film Spree divided and impressed (virtual) audiences at Fantasia Film Festival 2020 and got talked about for the rest of the year, the writer/director made a strong
Treasure: Lily Brett, an Australian-born novelist and essayist, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and writes about that issue and condition quite a lot. Her 2001 novel Too Many Men deals with the travels of a daughter and her father to Poland in order to uncover the father’s catastrophic history. Several themes are paramount, including
Harvest: It’s been nine years since Athina Rachel Tsangari directed her last movie, “Chevalier”, a scathing contemporary satire on toxic masculinity and senseless measuring contests. Many changes have taken place in Greek writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s third feature film, “Harvest” – her first film in English, her first adaptation and perhaps her biggest and most
The Hopeful: Followers of Christ learn that their hope is to be anchored in Him. This is through reading the bible, praying, attending church, and interacting with one another. While we follow Christ, we feel the love He has for us. Manual in hand, we also understand and learn that the Lord Jesus shall one
Much like the works of Whit Stillman and Woody Allen, A New York story also centers on love transcending class boundaries. New York still imparts a magical charm intermingled with young lovers roaming cities in different seasons. During my teenage years, it was an appealing romantic aesthetic but in the last couple of years, it
High Tide: Writer-director Marco Calvani’s debut feature “High Tide” is an earnest and tenderhearted story of a young undocumented gay Brazilian Lourenço (played by Marco Pigossi) who is counting his remaining hours in town before living in an uncertain future. While the film possesses pictorial narrative patterns reminiscent of a homoerotic world that Claire Denis’s
La Cocina: Long before establishing himself as an extraordinary new filmmaker in Mexico, with a distinctive and original voice, Alonso Ruizpalacios was busy washing up in a crowded kitchen in a big city. Such a background prompts everyone’s beloved director of Museos fourth feature, La cocina, which he directed and co-wrote, easily inspired and worked
The film, “Sweet Dreams” offers a new take on the violent era where the conquering of Africa was reduced to a cruel game. The film has its own this black comical touch and that is what gives “Sweet Dreams” its uniqueness. This makes the film’s plot memorable even though it, unfortunately, does not seem to
