Generic dialogue, and the missing depth of most of the characters kills what is a sometimes interesting film, which is classic ‘Sunrise’, at its most effective when it has the rawness of one of the greatest vampire films there has ever been, ‘Near Dark,’ but that is never the case, almost. Again, we are in […]
This week the Cronenberg family tree. This week, the branched out from the Cronenburg cinematic family tree is entitled Humane, which marks the directorial debut of Caitlin Cronenberg, whose leading actors are Jay Baruchel, Peter Gallagher, and Emily Hampshire. Anyone coming to this film for more of the body horror imagery in the works of
Recalling myself in my mids with Max (portrayed by Ruaridh Mollica). When I was about 20 years old, numerous young writers were coming to me, just like this one. Ruthless, clever, very persuasive when it comes to supposedly showing an art he appreciates, literature and works by American Ellis Bret. By the free lancing standards,
Recently, I have come across a short story “The Aesthete” by Justin C. Key. In this story, there is a Black-coded android hero who comes to terms with (among other things) his creation. “I wasn’t Black,” he thinks. “I wasn’t white either. Some people were of the opinion that my skin, my very genes, are
The children of Belfast colony are found in their classroom, participating in singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a denote the olden Irish song in the language which is a requirement in their school. They just know the words without putting any energy into it. Two boys sitting on the further end of the classroom
The winner of the World Dramatic competition at Sundance, co-directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s understated and essential Mexican drama “Sujo” is one of two films in this year’s lineup (the other being “Ponyboi”) in which children who were given distinctive names by doomed macho dads spend years wondering what those monikers mean. In both
The portrayal of “Founder Days” as a ‘brash political slasher’ ring is an over-exaggeration of the movie, which is never more than a killing spree that follows down the post ‘scream’ killing spree of a disturbed town…Nancy’s parents are just manifested with the same over-the-top political correctness, with no sense of purpose. That distortion is
This exchange in the middle of Robert Kolodny’s nimble biopic “The Featherweight” brings out the underlying vulnerabilities in this tragic character’s figure to a T. The man of course is the two times featherweight world champion Willie Pep who fought over two hundred and thirty times and won more than his fair share of those
Errol Morris, a once advance outsider to the system of the making of docs, has become its most successful doc maker, directing his attention to people or issues that, in all likelihood, most of us would prefer not to focus on. At times they are ridiculously amusing and so bad they can only be laughed
‘Despicable Me’ begins with acceptance of the fact, that there is always something fascinating about villains and that is what motivates the portrayal of a character called Gru who, for example, comes to Starbucks and freeze-drys everybody in the queue and bursts the balloons in the hands of the kids. Many a James Bond villain
