Escape from Germany: Very few artists engage their artistry the way Utah filmmaker T.C. Christensen utilizes his work to channel his faith, with remarkable Latter-day Saint concepts demonstrating sincerity in films such as ‘The Fighting Preacher’, ‘Love, Kennedy’, ’The Cokeville Miracle’, ‘Ephraim’s Rescue’ and ‘17 Miracles’. The same is true for Christensen’s latest, “Escape From […]
I have recently finished reviewing “Masters of the Air” and I can tell you this one about “The Bloody Hundredth” exactly is a true story about the Eighth Air Force airmen and actually was like watching the tenth episode in the series. This is not just about Hanks’ voice as the narrator, several of the
A perfect bite-sized chunk film length of ninety one minutes can’t do justice to Sting, another horror-action genre movie that follows a giant spider terrorizing a group of New Yorkers in Brooklyn. It unquestionably seems to go nether here nor there, but for the length of the film, barely scratching the surface was an awful
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
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid: Creating a documentary on a sensitive current event can be risky. It is quite possible that the situation you were exploring in the first place has already changed significantly. This leaves you with very little to say about it in the general conception of your movie. The reality is, the
Maria’s Silence: Davis Simanis’ Marijas Klusums is a period drama about actress Mārī Leiko, a soviet era silent actress who was deceived to move to Moscow in 1937, presumably because she thought of herself as invincible. One year later this woman is dispatched to her death by Stalin’s secret police. This Latvian film director also
I have been branded a witch, a promiscuous woman, a killer. Maybe it is the characters I perform in the movies that people associate with myself … like a blank space where others project their thoughts and deficiencies, but vengeance is not necessary. I am taking back my spirit. I articulate as a female in
The feature-length animated film “2475 Dawn of Revolution”, was largely a directed and produced by Wivat, who has made a name for himself in a more contemporary way. Nobody goes as far as stating, like the critics of this movie within the industry do, that two-dimensional animation such as this one, alters the real events
The Return: Because of the unique opportunity of watching more than two hundred films in a single festival, you begin to draw certain thematic and narrative links. This is for this type of delivery Leo Tolstoy’s line from Anna Karenina rang a bell: ‘Every unhappy family is unhappy in its unique way, every happy family
The film study on the Holocaust or Israel, allowing for plenty of various interpretations, is not popularly absent in cinema. However, it is rather uncommon to see these very two subjects combined so deliberately as it happens in “June Zero.” To enfold it all into some kind of network of interrelated stories, through a number
