Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch may encompass several decades, languages, continents and cultures, civilizations etc., and bear themes of memory, ageing, loss and love. However its delicateness is as pleasing as the caress of butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) aged widow who owns a restaurant in Iceland goes to the doctor and reports that he […]
Damaged: At their best, at least, the audience has been treated to a walloping dose of gore in many of the countless gruesome serial killer films that emerged in the imitator bandwagon to “Se7en” thirty years back. However, good suspense and atmosphere and new narrative concepts seem much harder to come by. This is definitely
There is a particularly good moment towards the end of the sturdy, almost retro epic ‘Cabrini,’ by Brenda Longo and Kathleen Murphy, about an Italian Catholic missionary nun who set up the only orphanage in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, which coordinated the building of homes and charities century later. In
‘Running on Empty’ (let’s just take note that there are many films that bears that exact title but this particular movie is not that of Sydney Lumet better of and even nobler hence the title of the movie, but there is a song by succoring Jackson Browne which bears the same name) begins on that
The 1953 novel ‘The Unnamable’ commences with these words – ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on’ that most people including his critics would easily attribute to the Irish born poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, Samuel Beckett. dance First is simple and to the point and that is where they are most in terror of
Queer: The jazzy experimentalism of the Beat Generation writers has proven to be a complicated task in converting their works to the screen. Walter Salles’ adaptation of On the Road, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl and David Bronenberg’s Naked Lunch attempted the same with varying degrees of success. One of the better films about
The Forge: The newest addition to the Kendrick brothers’ collection is easily one of their finest yet. The film deals with the subject of discipleship and what is expected from a new follower of Christ. Certain aspects such as obligations, hierarchy, intercession and sacrifice for God are depicted and presented strongly in this movie. Each
Scoop are claims that he was pressured into doing this whereby he seems even more shocked whilst thinking that the interview was rather successful which is beyond comprehension! Exactly what kind of a bubble do you have to be in to actually think that saying that I don’t sweat or that it was a nice
In ‘Young Woman and the Sea’, Daisy Ridley has no qualms in going to war against jellyfishes and patriarchy alike with such feistiness and flair. In this riveting biopic, Ridley plays the role of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to make the journey of swimming the English channel. Ederle achieved this milestone in 1926–almost a
