Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” is placed over the course of few days but emotionally, transports the audience so deep into the lead character’s mind, it feels like one has lived an entire life. Dandelion (Kiki Layne) is unfulfilled. She is a young woman from Cincinnati dreaming to become a musician but most of the time […]
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to vanquish,” is stated by one of the main characters of the Crossing film, Lia – middle aged stern woman from the Georgian city of Batumi who has migrated to the Turkish Capital Aiport Almati. As this Crossing film is sad he has to come to this conclusion at
The overwhelming urge to resist a beautiful romantic comedy is sometimes hard to fathom when it comes to that particular genre. Such films can hardly be criticized as those almost belong to a different class of cinemas. Which Brings Me To You casts familiar actors in this sub-genre; movie fans, the pair’s bemoans a genre
Mother of the Bride: In recent times, there have been a surge of rather extravagant destination wedding themed rom-coms. Fashions seem to change quickly, and two years ago it was all about “Ticket to Paradise” with Clooney/Roberts and also “Shotgun Wedding” with J.Lo and Duhamel. More recently “Anyone But You” with Sweeney and Powell came
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch may encompass several decades, languages, continents and cultures, civilizations etc., and bear themes of memory, ageing, loss and love. However its delicateness is as pleasing as the caress of butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) aged widow who owns a restaurant in Iceland goes to the doctor and reports that he
Shuchi Talati, a writer-director makes her first attempt at feature film making with her “Girls Will Be Girls” is an awesomely sad documentation of generational girlhood. Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) is the brightest star in her school (in the center’s studies) As per our records first woman ever holds the position of head prefect in the
‘Running on Empty’ (let’s just take note that there are many films that bears that exact title but this particular movie is not that of Sydney Lumet better of and even nobler hence the title of the movie, but there is a song by succoring Jackson Browne which bears the same name) begins on that
Queer: The jazzy experimentalism of the Beat Generation writers has proven to be a complicated task in converting their works to the screen. Walter Salles’ adaptation of On the Road, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl and David Bronenberg’s Naked Lunch attempted the same with varying degrees of success. One of the better films about
In ‘Young Woman and the Sea’, Daisy Ridley has no qualms in going to war against jellyfishes and patriarchy alike with such feistiness and flair. In this riveting biopic, Ridley plays the role of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to make the journey of swimming the English channel. Ederle achieved this milestone in 1926–almost a
Redemption and the world of athletics. Or rather redemption in the world of sports. Many such heart-warming under-dog stories are related to sports, even extreme sports. To the general audience of motion pictures, there is the vague overused intrigue of an underdog story — a poor but richly talented young sportsman who has but one
