In this piece, Hala Matar, director of the film ‘Electra’, narrates her sources of inspiration, draws comparisons between her film and ‘Saltburn’, and discusses the motives of the main characters of the film – crisis of identity and desire for revenge. This time, the world premiere of Matar’s new film Electra takes place at the […]
Dead Money: I have to admit, poker is one of the few games in which I’ve never been particularly skilled. A large part of it is that my expression while playing tends to look more like Zero Mostel in “The Producers” than Amarillo Slim. Additionally, possessing some of the skills necessary to excel in such
There have always been anti-heroes in horror and thrilling cinema such as Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman and now the newest addition to this dark lineage is Clare Bleecker, the teenage sociopath, who is being portrayed by Bella Thorne in Mitzi Peirone’s Saint Clare. The film is also based on Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen,
The press announcement for Wanted Man mentions how writer-director-actor Dolph Lundgren portrays his character in the film stating, ”Johansen is a veteran investigator who, due to previous policing strategies, has caused more trouble for the department’s public image in the recent past.” Such outdated strategies involve punching a suspect, while making what can be construed
There has been a growth of faith-based movies that have entered the market within the last decade. They began as debate films with long exposition and retelling of bible stories, but they have since developed into horror and action. One recent film fits into the later category; Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace from Ali Zamani
It is clear that Andrew Smith and the directors of curtailed self-expression behind the Shell film intended it to be a film that gives its audience pleasure as it likely went through some censoring while in production. It likely resonates with a lot of audiences in the sense that it is a film that is
Gioachino Rossini’s opera from the 19th century, The Thieving Magpie, portrays the life of a maid set to die after her employers come across a missing silver piece. She’s already on the gallows and just as she awaits the release of the trapdoors, the real thief is exposed: a magpie that took silver from sevearl
Arena Wars: After having watched several movies of a certain major or independent studio, one can be able to predict how the next films will be. In most instances, once a studio’s brand is established, received movies are produced with that audience in mind. If I go to watch a movie produced by Disney, I
Latency: As professional gamer Hana, a striking opponent of profound agoraphobia, starts to appreciate and fantasize about the brand new hardware that stimulates her game in a visual way, she does not know whether the hardware is gratifying her with power, or it is making her submissively obey. James Croke’s AI-centric film, Latency, depicts AI
Peter Five Eight: You, reader — let me be clear, the real you, not the generic one who has always been referred to as the “reader” — how do you find the performance of Kevin Spacey in Michael Zaiko Hall’s Peter Five Eight, an indie crime film released recently? Zaiko Hall recounted to The Independent,
