What if instead of a married couple, the group of friends on a yacht for a holiday in Phillip Noyce’s 1989 classic Dead Calm were alone in the boat? What if instead of meeting a psychotic Billy Zane way out in the middle of nowhere, the Australians came across a sinking and broken boat filled […]
The Argentinian Martin Donovan is a filmmaker, but he should not be confused with American actor Martin Donovan. The former Argentinian donned some arthouse fame in his thriller Apartment Zero (1988) which features Hart Bochner, who plays an ambiguous stranger who seduces his way through an apartment building. Mad at the Moon was Donovan’s second
Love Actually is definitely horrendous, both as the 2003 film directed by Richard Curtis and as a life experience that few people managed to avoid. In the case of Scud’s 2011 drama, there is also a third, literal interpretation of the title that gets very nicely explained in a wedding video shown right at the
With Iceland being such a small country, it is unsurprising that it has not been incorporated into cinema. Like many films, its breathtaking landscapes have served as a filming background for countless movies, but it is still fairly uncommon for foreigners to watch films that feature Icelandic stories, characters, and language. In this regard, it
I can imagine how challenging it can be for someone to drop everything and move to Hollywood with the hopes of being an actor. I have a few friends who did exactly that and while I could not advise them on acting, I told my friends that they need to refrain from being on their
Judging only from a surface level analysis, including critical acclaim, The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939), fails to leave a mark in 1939. Additionally, it does not make much of an impact when looked at through the lens of the film industry and its history. However, when analyzed in detail, it certainly helps expands on
I’m beginning to realize that it’s not only the heterosexual community that has trouble dating. I’m sure most of the gay men who don’t engage in one-night stands are finding it difficult to date as well because they are more focused on filming movies discussing how dating is an issue for them. Actually, what they
Black Venus is an intriguing biopic that depicts the story of Saartjie Baartman, a Khoikoi woman brought from Cape Town to London in 1810 by Hendrick Caezar. In the year 1810, a Khoikoi woman by the name of Saartjie Baartman, portrayed by Yahima Torres, was taken from Cape Town to London by someone named Hendrick
What do you get when you combine one single, always-working mother, a weird old man with his endless money and a charming reporter. And let’s not forget the cute little boy. Real life? NOPE. Maybe if you toss in alcohol and change the weird old man into a woman, you might be able to find
The phrase “It’s a man’s world” originates from somewhere around 1954 and meets Kenji Mizoguchi’s movie “The Woman In The Rumour.” While browsing the movie, it seems like there was a lot of focus on the buffoons and drunks that had no major consequence. Men of power having no one to answer for their deeds
