Since “Stranger Things” is plodding towards its last season which appears very far off such that the kids will soon be looking causes for retirement, it would be easy to begin hunting for the new one’s releases to plug the void. Pure strain 80s nostalgia for those cheesy family movies, be it a king adaptation […]
Several clichés are present in the wiseass anti-biopic Daaaaaalí! This nose-tweaking comedy addresses the problem with telling a conventional narrative with a well-known figure such as the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The hardiest and possibly the most tempting truism comes instead of last: Salvador Dali was, as were many other artists-public figures, the biggest work
“White Bird” directed by Marc Forster, deals with the Holocaust and comes out as a thoughtful but more or less didactic movie which tries to depict so much tragedy mostly as a classroom interaction for today’s children. It is an extended digression of a French granny narrating to the grandson about tolerance and its meant
The adage ‘nature is healing’, uttered in jest especially during the Anthropause, was accurate–it was comforting in some way and still is–to know that it would be good to take a breather, even a teeny one, from all that we do to the planet–whether we were aware of any footprint or not. This applies so
Dahomey, a feature documentary directed by Mati Diop also has quotes for this type of author. In the film, the recovery of royal objects of the Kingdom of Dahomey created in the 17th century is shown–26 in total. The objects were returned to the Republic of Benin at the end of 2021 after they circulated
I was quite keen for “Salem’s Lot.” Being a great admirer of Stephen King–who I consider the ‘master of horror’ and ‘Salem’s Lot'(1975) as one of his best works–I also do not like it how much Max/WB refuses to let their ‘n’en production Zorba‘, ‘Coyote Vs Acme’ and other Hollywood projects to like ‘Batgirl be
On a personal prespective, the horror genre in 2024 is filled with COVID somehow. It includes isolation more than before than the stories one could find in any given genre. It is a well-known fact that since 2020 everyone was mostly confined to their homes so the cinema where parent’s anxiety is about the unknown
Oksana Karpovych’s new documentary film ‘Intercepted’ refreshingly looks at the problem of the war in Ukraine. There have been many brave documentary filmmakers and journalists who have gone into the war since its outbreak in February 2022, but Karen Karpovych has captured many of the iconic imagery of Ukrainian resilience shown in documentaries and media
A dulling sense of inevitability in a person’s life regarding everything invisible and imperceptible begins to expand and irreversibly change. Most crucial things are not contained in things that the dialogue says. I believe that we’ve all faced up to this rage with a shudder at least once in a lifetime, but as far as
‘Running on Empty’ (let’s just take note that there are many films that bears that exact title but this particular movie is not that of Sydney Lumet better of and even nobler hence the title of the movie, but there is a song by succoring Jackson Browne which bears the same name) begins on that
