Transformers a global phenomenon in 2007 thanks to ‘Paranormal Activity fully developed the modern found footage genre’ and since then there have been in efforts in re inventing the genre. One of the best among in the found footage genre is Set ten years ago Creep Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice star in the film […]
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Elton John: Never Too Late is an emotional film suitable for John’s target audience and it somewhat resembles the official oil portraits commissioned by the astute self-assured members of the royal family. The movie is available to stream on Disney+ and was also made available for a short time. It is co-directed by David Furnish,
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In “Night is Not Eternal”, Nanfu Wang connects her cinematic activism in China with the activism of Rosa Maria Paya Rosa who shot Wang twice in Cuba. But her connection is not incidental, but quite political. It is not only the country where Wang created her film that can be referred to as an authoritarian
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While Hong Sang-soo’s comedies of manners are not meant to provoke a lot of laughter, they contain some robust dry humor and satire. After directing over thirty films, the skilled Korean director has certainly mastered his craft. He blends in minimalism while filming, using a tripod to keep the camera still, zooming in when absolutely
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The snow-saturated neo-noir “Whiteout,” which was originally planned to become titled “Walking Supply” after the short film it is based on, is a Canadian film. It is notable that the new title of the film is also presented in nanoseconds at the point of subtitle view. For context, Saban Films is marketing the movie as
In the end, it’s all about a vanished pistol. And it has been and still is the key part of the drama. Iman (Missagh Zareh), in Rasoulof’s masterfully crafted, powerfully angry and almost entirely hollow movie “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” swears towards the beginning of the film that he has misplaced the gun
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One of my favorite film noir subgenres is Sunshine Noir. I’m fascinated by how it locates the shadows in the dazzling light of Southern California. These movies usually start in Los Angeles but then shift to the fringes of the area: the barren San Fernando Valley or the San Gabriel mountains, Inland Empire, or the
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Directors Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera comprise of the idea that there is no greater hell than family gatherings during the holidays and seem to have developed the film ‘You are not me’ with the idea of how family distance physical or emotional can toll the family members to indulge in hidden violence, both physical
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In director Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” Jude Law has the scruffiest look of his career. He stars in the film as FBI agent Terry Husk, but considering his portrayal, he seems more of a husk than an agent. He looked disheveled. His big body was hunched over, his unshaven stubble looked sloppy, and his gum
In Scrap, we follow adult siblings Ben, Anthony Rapp, who is an accomplished fantasy writer, and Beth, writer and director Vivian Kerr, who is a single mother of a five-year-old daughter named Birdy who struggles to make ends meet. After Bens parents passed away in a plane crash, he took in his sister, Beth. Now
