There are many questions that still remain unanswered in regard to ” Devara: Part 1”. “Devara” is a fine but familiar Telugu language Indian action drama and the star vehicle for N.T. Rama Rao Jr. who is also a co-lead in the movie RRR. For starters, does this nautical-themed melody drama need to be the […]
There’s always a V/H/S movie at the Fantastic Fest. For the last four years, the Austin audience has been treated to one installment of the Shudder Originals series, leading up to the sixth in the series dropping this weekend in V/H/S/Beyond before it premiered on Shudder on October 4. By this point, the strengths and
As “Stranger Things” ventures toward its final season, which is so delayed that the kids may already have their AARP cards ready, it’s easy to fall into the trap of looking for new content to fill the void. We are talking about pure nostalgia for the soft-hearted children’s features of the 1980s, be it Stephen
We are presented with an important puzzle in Paris Long’s film, “Caddo Lake,” where someone says to him, “If you are unable to put your thoughts together, you will not progress further.” For some reason, I am not so sure that I can explain this movie in detail and do so without any issues. Nonetheless,
The documentary by Sue Kim titled ‘The Last of the Sea Women’ kicks off with a peculiar lady’s first recount of a story as she gets ready to get into the water for some seafood gathering. As the camera focuses out, it is apparent that the ocean is filled with women dressed in swimming suits.
The critically dividing and debatable “The Apprentice” adapts the life story of Donald Trump into a story that is similar to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And guess who is the good doctor in the glass case? I’m sure you’ve already guessed, that it’s Roy Cohn, who also receives some help in creating his monster from the
As the clock ticked down on October 11th, 1975, a new set of challenges arose. The lights on set almost toppled over the actors, seats remained empty, costume changes were yet unsolved, a set script was ‘work-in-progress’, and most importantly, John Belushi hadn’t even signed the contract. He juxtaposed the claim of the night with
A combination of a musical and documentary into a Lego movie like “Piece by Piece” is truly wonderful. Most likely, the life of producer/musician Pharrell Williams would seamlessly integrate with the animated world because he is the genius who brought us Happy, one of the most popular songs of all time. In William’s case, spirit
The grief-stricken love story owes its popularity to ‘The Notebook’, but it began to ‘die’ with the wide variety of adaptations of Nicholas Sparks’ books by his copycats. While viewing John Crowley’s skillfully made “We Will In Time”, which was screened during the Toronto International Film Festival, I was touched by how it draws a
Up until a point, not too distant, this orthodoxy was difficult to imagine – some practitioners may say it was really about as close as possible to impossible. In her 1995 documentary, The Lonely Planet, Susannah Grant presents the former Australian, Holly Willoughby, as a ‘woman who rides on Bruno’. Long ago, world literature of
