While seated with a new counselor for the first time in Bob Trevino Likes It, there are only fragments of what Lily (Barbie Ferreira) claims to be an elaborate explanation of events in flashback as she rapidly tells the story. Still, it’s obvious it’s a dark one: “I’m pretty sure it was not all my […]
“Bonjour Tristesse,” the cinematic film is such a perfect capitalization of the book about the life of a French teenage girl. However, there are a lot of critics of this movie, simply because they cannot accept a vision of a woman being exploited. Its controversial media character Otto premature has been vilified to the extent
Award-winning musician, writer, producer, director, and star of the show Jussie Smollett has written the story of his new film “The Lost Holliday” which is expected to hit the US theaters on September 27. The movie was recognized for its emotional scenes and impressive storytelling at the ABFF film festival and is set to be
Ride: More than two decades ago, Garth Brooks, a country music star, sang, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s the dust and mud/It’s the roar of a Sunday crowd/It’s the white in the knuckles/The gold in the buckle/He’ll win the next go-’round.” Brooks’s lyrics resonate with a true fan of rodeo bull riders since they evoke
Sometimes, when I am idly daydreaming, I get flashes about what becomes of letters displaced within the postal service. It appears strange to lose mail, especially in my young spirited mind, the system of post worked smoothly and there were no chances of missing letters or parcels. It seems that my co-writer and co-director, Joe
There are a pair of films that are poles apart and are being made in Little Death. One is larger than life, rough around the edges and not all that brilliant but kind of stupidly entertaining. The other one is a depressing one, almost of a softer kind, and has a completely different message. To
Lilies Not for Me: The period drama Lilies Not For Me calls on viewers to consider a terrible, now mostly overlooked strain of the history of homophobia. However, debut writer and director Will Seefried – creator and co-star of Laura Linney miniseries Sink Sank Sunk – attempts to treat the subject matter in a rather
Perhaps in order to draw potential viewers into theaters, Sundance novelty “Love Me” is presented as a very busy picture with wonderful special effects revolving around the relationship of a satellite revolving the globe with a buoy stranded in the ocean. Set after the extiction of humanity, in the Zucheros’ unusual take on the romantic
The absurdity of working with children and animals is an idea embedded in the film industry. For different reasons, these days, animals in particular have been replaced by CGI. Still, filmmaker Peter Cattaneo ignores these rules for his entry to TIFF24 with The Penguin Lessons. Cattaneo’s work immerses us into the thick of the chaos…political
First Shift: Whether you enjoy it or not, the controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll is back in cinema again for the first time through an extended cameo. Laing noted that he appeared in Radu Jude’s movie entitled Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World, where he says A boxing match with film
