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In France, the hours from five to seven are ordained as lovers’ meeting time. For Cleo that afternoon, there could not be anything further from her mind than sex. She is counting the minutes until she hears back on results from tests which she feels are going to tell her that she is dying from […]

Like westerns, we needn’t watch genre-reared samurai characters to understand and enjoy what makes them tick. They can enlarge to include tales of moral quandaries and human pitfalls. One of the best of these, “Harakiri,” concerns a down-and-out older itinerant samurai who presents an inescapable moral quandary to the headman of a formidable clan. He […]

Cult Killer is a movie about women who have been abused and decide to take justice into their own hands by tracking down and killing child rapists and gang rapists. Of course, there are people who will see this picture and know that this picture is not meant for the faint hearted. However, even if […]

Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer N/A) is deeply troubled and needs help. Suddenly widow and artistic partner of Ben Sarah (Reina Hardesty N/A), caused a sudden shock in Ben. He skips meals and overrides sleep mode. He is trapped in a neverending stupor, forgetting to attend to practical matters like hygiene. When his concerned sister Gloria (Lucy […]

Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” is placed over the course of few days but emotionally, transports the audience so deep into the lead character’s mind, it feels like one has lived an entire life. Dandelion (Kiki Layne) is unfulfilled. She is a young woman from Cincinnati dreaming to become a musician but most of the time […]

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and there’s “Lumina,” a stunningly pitiful effort at every single level that makes one think that the writers are going for a deliberate model of The Room or Birdemic and playing for the audience only. What’s with some of the awful shot selection, the hair-brained plotting, […]

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it’ll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran the place found interesting and switched lineups every day or two. There […]

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to vanquish,” is stated by one of the main characters of the Crossing film, Lia – middle aged stern woman from the Georgian city of Batumi who has migrated to the Turkish Capital Aiport Almati. As this Crossing film is sad he has to come to this conclusion at […]

There’s a popular belief among film critics that the suburbs are awful. It’s high time the critics should watch this movie. The ideal nuclear families that possess McMansions are at times far from being ideal. The new domestic setting is not exactly fresh, but such settings, which are so interesting and fun to behold, are […]

Suspicion toward an Angel Studios picture is quite understandable; perhaps, because after all, this Utah based movie studio had already gained prominence last year with the surprising box office success of the child trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom. The box office takings of the Sound of Hope film reached 242 million dollars thanks to a […]