The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and […]
This installment, “She Rises Up,” is Maureen Castle Tustys latest offering as a documentary filmmaker and it seeks to address the international economy and the efforts of a certain group of women trying to operate within it. Rightfully, removing the pride from the three central women as they are Gladys of Peru, Magatte of Senegal
The classification “Hummingbirds” also does no favour to the film, as it pushes the films into the depth of mere documentary. In sharp contrast – best friends and the directors Silvia del Carmen Castanos and Estefania Beba Contreras, – this is absolutely more than that, Self-presentation of the their, call for action, amusing summers with
Patrice Leconte’s “Monsieur Hire” is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, spoken of two lonely people who have nothing at all to share, except loneliness. Murder has been committed, and the movie opens on a corpse. Monsieur Hire, a thin, balding middle-aged tailor, lives alone. Alice, on the other hand, is a beautiful, tender-hearted 22-year-old
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
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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,
