Apocalypse. Apocalypse never goes through any fundamental changes. But people, particularly those who are impacted by it, do. The country of Kazakhstan has long had its name cemented in film history with the genre-bending mockumentary Borat. As it seems, cinema from Kazakhstan hasn’t rater made its way to the North America, which is peculiar for […]
The children of Belfast colony are found in their classroom, participating in singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a denote the olden Irish song in the language which is a requirement in their school. They just know the words without putting any energy into it. Two boys sitting on the further end of the classroom
The winner of the World Dramatic competition at Sundance, co-directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s understated and essential Mexican drama “Sujo” is one of two films in this year’s lineup (the other being “Ponyboi”) in which children who were given distinctive names by doomed macho dads spend years wondering what those monikers mean. In both
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
