Fantasy

The objective to be one with the other is simultaneously the most romantic of ideas and the one that provokes utter terror. In his debut feature film “Else” screened at the Toronto Film Festival Thibault Emin directs us in the direction of the former but before long takes a nosedive into the implications of the […]

You can feel what’s going on in “Starve Acre” as soon as you press play. You know how when you are watching that film, they make it intolerably humid and wet? A characteristic of the film the more visible as the secrets get literally unburied as the film unfolds. Daniel Kokotajlo’s second feature is a […]

Ricky Stanicky: Quite some time ago, and before Judd Apatow pretty much monopolized on infantile male-centered films, there still existed someone like Peter Farrelly, who with Bobby could make seine films that would, well, have a funny, if a little extreme and rude, film ‘Dumb and Dumber’ or ‘There, am Mary, but What am I?’, […]

As if plunging into a lazy river of horrors was not enough, completing the experience is ‘Night Swim’ – the excuse your friends give every January to convince you to watch a horror movie with them produced by Blumhouse. “Night Swim” keeps the nets like ‘M3gan’ one calendar year ago. And while I do not […]

The children’s imagination gave birth to the idea of imaginary friends. With just an empty room and some random odds and ends, children can dream up the most outlandish adventures. And every child at that age has an imaginary friend to satisfy his or her needs. In his animated drama ‘The Imaginary’, Yoshiyuki Momose explores […]

Having a deep respect for Harold and the Purple Crayon, a children’s book by Crockett Johnson, which I call his “the imagination is the most powerful tool” book of 1955 (I give every new born I love a copy of the book with a purple crayon taped inside – which is interesting through very useful […]

Since “Stranger Things” is plodding towards its last season which appears very far off such that the kids will soon be looking causes for retirement, it would be easy to begin hunting for the new one’s releases to plug the void. Pure strain 80s nostalgia for those cheesy family movies, be it a king adaptation […]

“Once upon a time, there was a chivalric romance in which the heroic knight was able to rescue a princess in peril,” begins a quote from a woman’s voice without revealing the title, ‘Damsel.’ “This is not one of them.” This sappy story of a hot male actor may polarize critics but, thank God, I […]

Several clichés are present in the wiseass anti-biopic Daaaaaalí! This nose-tweaking comedy addresses the problem with telling a conventional narrative with a well-known figure such as the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The hardiest and possibly the most tempting truism comes instead of last: Salvador Dali was, as were many other artists-public figures, the biggest work […]

At the very onset of Descendants: The Rise of Red, we see a royal proclamation which states that the elite boarding school for Walt Disney’s classic characters would now be accepting a new class of VKs – Villain’s Kids. More familiar as the children of the Disney movies’ evil villains. Admission letters were or rather […]