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The film “Poolman,” which is also the first filmed directed by Chris Pine is an eccentric character comedy about the residents of Los Angeles while at the same time poking fun at sleuthing 1940s genres. Executive producer Pine also played the title role, Darren Barrenman, who Ian Gotler helped him co-write as well. Today, Darren […]

The issue of police brutality is one that never goes out of the news cycle. There have been many, too many instances and such events in different parts of the country which would indicate a greater misuse of state power. Some stories rise to the level of national news, others even if not will still […]

“Thirty years ago (on a Sunday to be exact, The Last Stop in Yuma County is exactly 30 years ago), Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and the world of cinema was changed forever. The film of the year 1994 Tarantino pretzel pozhorkov. Meta-epos-crime ‘Eadweard’‘s enormous and exceeding […]

“Prom Dates,” a story about 2 teenage girls getting into scrapes before prom parties sounds as crude as an R rated teen comedy but proves warm and heartfelt. While this narrative technique is ancient, it reached its peak in the 21 st century with the movie ‘Superbad’ and further advanced when social media became rampart […]

In 1761, when she was twenty-four years old and without a penny to her name, Jeanne Bécu addressed one of her letters to a “dear friend” and even went to say that she loved him. Then she cut to the chase: “I grew tired of being a mere shopgirl and wished to be my own […]

If I had to describe how Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow” is set up, most of you would probably guess what is more or less to come next. However, one of the many nice things about the film, which was Lithuania’s submission for the international feature film category in the Oscar this year, is that it tries […]

Spiders. Of ALL the creatures to terrorize the people, these are the preferred ones? Those of us who let out a gasp at the sight of a spider can come to testify that many legged arachnids are an easy source of horror. Most of us don’t really appreciate being greeted by these visitors on our […]

I have been branded a witch, a promiscuous woman, a killer. Maybe it is the characters I perform in the movies that people associate with myself … like a blank space where others project their thoughts and deficiencies, but vengeance is not necessary. I am taking back my spirit. I articulate as a female in […]

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 […]