The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and […]
You do not always get the dog you desire, but you always get the dog you happen to need. This expression, normally spouted by dog lovers, fits intriguingly well with the Chinese director Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”. On such a scale, the maverick director’s latest – an Un Certain Regard antagonist at the Cannes this
Patrice Leconte’s “Monsieur Hire” is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, spoken of two lonely people who have nothing at all to share, except loneliness. Murder has been committed, and the movie opens on a corpse. Monsieur Hire, a thin, balding middle-aged tailor, lives alone. Alice, on the other hand, is a beautiful, tender-hearted 22-year-old
Calvin Reeder’s “The A-Frame” is filled with well-articulated concepts yet to be developed into an effective piece of work. It is a film about the inevitability of death and embarrassing desires of running from it and how creatively, the narrative design turns towards terminal illness. But as the narrative starts exploring the Sci-Fi aspect, it
“Lift” is incredibly generic, very boring and quite forgettable too, just like any other film titled ‘Lift, the kind of glossy action film that moves really fast the way Netflix movies do, even if there is no requirement for it. It is not crassly silly like ‘Red Notice’, for example, but rather more on par
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey: It has been more than four decades since audiences have been drawn to bloodbath films such as those featuring psychos with chainsaws, a lunatic in Halloween attire, a maniac wearing a hockey mask, an arsonist in a striped shirt and a fedora and finally, one whose face is pierced with S&M
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and the revenge in the film “The Wasp” has been in the freezer for twenty years. This revenge is so satisfying that it is disguised as another intention. This film misguidedly prepares us for something and what we are looking at is not, in fact, what we are
As if plunging into a lazy river of horrors was not enough, completing the experience is ‘Night Swim’ – the excuse your friends give every January to convince you to watch a horror movie with them produced by Blumhouse. “Night Swim” keeps the nets like ‘M3gan’ one calendar year ago. And while I do not
You could suppose that after a film like Lycan Colony, would be the last thing that director Rob Roy wants to do, is make another werewolf film. But you would be wrong, he’s back with American Werewolves, not in London or Paris, just American Werewolves. I suppose An American Werewolf in Pine Grove, PA just
The Blumhouse production’s newest chapter is called ‘Imaginary’, with the name of Jeff Wadlow’ as the Jonathan’s producer of ‘Truth of Dare’. Blumhouse seems to be hit or miss and in my eyes, ‘Imaginary’ is another fill-up in a list of mediocres. The film suffers from the plague of excessive plot synopsis and premise overload
