At times movies focus on obscure history within their country which leads to a change or evaluation of history. The film Never Alone by Klaus Haro highlights an event that could redefine history and Never Alone is on track to do that. It depicts the deportation of eight Austrian Jewish refugees from Finland, and the […]
I love all of the Sundance programs, but NONE can compare to the NEXT program. The festival not only focuses on first-rate exhilarating filmmakers but also permits incredibly risky filmmaking that other festivals would not allow. This dispatch is a compilation of two films that have bold independence with joy and observe broken characters trying
Suppose bunnies are not at the top of your interests, besides finding them cute. In that case, a piece of bunnies’ trivia that you will discover in writer-director Katarina Zhu’s “Bunnylovr” her debut feature, might break your heart. It turns out that when bunnies are put under a lot of stress, or experience a sudden
The Unholy is a firmly engaging and frightfully commercial theological horror film. Its frights and demons unravel within a pop version of Christianity, which makes it no more unusual than last week’s Exorcist cash grab or last year’s installment of The Conjuring franchise. But, The Unholy actually works because it has a religious plot. It
Slamdance Film Festival unveils “Disposable Humanity,” a film detailing one of the least portrayed genocide crimes in history. Between 1939 and 1945, at the initiative of the Aktion T4 program, the physically and mentally disabled population housed within institutions was systematically exterminated. Akis T4 euthanasia program also included the execution of young disabled children described
Fantasia 2024 International Film Festival will feature the screening of Black Eyed Susan on July 18 and go on until August 4. McCrae Scooter is widely known as an underground filmmaker given that all his features have been shot on a plov budget and have provocatively defied norms. While I admit I am not well
Vivian Qu is a Chinese filmmaker who has directed three features and also produced the noir drama Black Coal, Thin Ice which in 2014 won Berlin’s Golden Bear. Now she brings this crime melodrama to Berlin, an engaging if tonally uncertain high-wire adventure that satirizes China’s hopeless addiction to gangster capitalism. It is also acidly
Box office results have not been this disappointing for original movies in a while. As of now, all four of the top-grossing movies in 2024 are sequels, with the romantic drama It Ends With Us peeking in at #11. Earlier this year, one of the more promising original films appeared to be Alex Garland’s Civil
“Love, Brooklyn” is a tribute to the people and places of Brooklyn, showcasing the talents of its three appealing lead performers. In this entry of Sundance’s US Dramatic competition, Andre Holland, Nicole Beharie, and DeWanda Wise portray professionals in a love triangle set in New York. The first feature film for director Rachael Abigail Holder
Leni Riefenstahl makes an appearance, albeit distantly, at the Venice Film Festival as a subject in Andres Veiel’s extraordinary deep-dive documentary about the “canceled” artist. This was the Venice of Mussolini’s empire, and in 1938 Riefenstahl was awarded the top prize for Olympia, her stunning and troubling homage to the Berlin Olympics. Her career soared
