Follows Korean independence activists who launched a daring attack in Harbin against the Japanese to gain their country’s independence. […]
Film Preview: Harbin (2024)
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
He was the greatest car maker of all time and a visionary like no other. Except, there have been others and we’ve seen their movies too. Ferrari did it most recently, Ford v. Ferrari did it better. It’s hard to make the same story feel fresh and Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend falls into […]
Napoleon
Napoleon can be a good war epic, but the character development made Napoleon hateable and not interesting!!! Real Rating: 3.5 Cannons What I Like: -The battle scenes were epic, director Ridley Scott executed some mind blowing effects that will keep you engaged The So So: -The acting was good in certain aspects, but as for […]
Bushido (2024) review
Kazuya Shiraishi proves that the frame of the samurai and the Edo society can still be utilized to deliver refreshing narratives.
Small Things Like These Review
From director Tim Mielants and based on the book written by Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These is an adaptation with heart about a situation involving layers of uncertainty. The story is woven in a way that is thought-provoking. It weighs the choices a man must make when faced with secrets. The film is set in areas around County Wexford and County Wicklow in Ireland. The season of the film gives off a chilly feeling and thecinematography feels cold as […]
The Big Short Review
Happy New Year! Nothing rings in another year like a review on a film focusing on the economic collapse of the late 2000s, right? Anyway… Montages of excess and breaking of the fourth wall allow The Big Short to perfectly illustrate the underlying messages throughout the film. That is to say, the economic greed and […]
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
And so I’ve been on a bit of a Hemingway kick while reading a brand new book (Just released) by favorite author Mark Kurlansky. Kurlansky tracks some of his adventures in journalism alongside those of Hem while on assignments and travels in Europe, Cuba and elsewhere. I didn’t read this particular […]
QUEER (2024): New Trailer From Luca Guadagnino, Staring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman…
New drama/romance/biography, Queer is the latest from Luca Guadagnino, director of this summer’s popular tennis movie Challengers, which starred Zendaya. Daniel Craig is Willam Lee, an outcast American expatriate in 1950s Mexico who develops an infatuation with a younger man named Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey). Based on a 1985 William S. Burroughs novella of the […]
I’m Still Here
In the battle for the most forgettable film title of the year, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (not to be confused with the Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary of the same title or the very similar I’m Not Here, Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic) is one of the clear favourites for a podium spot. It’s a relatively […]
The Birth of a Nation
From a young age Nat Turner (Nate Parker) was always told that he was going to be somebody important in life. By the “blessing of God” he had the ability to read words, which allowed for his slave masters to bring him into their home to learn about the word of God. Fast forward to […]
Small Things Like These – Film Review
Small Things Like These – Film Review by Frank L Director Tim Mielants Writers Enda Walsh, Claire Keegan Stars Cillian Murphy, Patrick Ryan, Peter Claffey In 1985, Ireland was on the verge of a tectonic change. The hegemony of the religious over all aspects of Irish life was beginning to crack with, for example, the […]
Small Things Like These – Film Review
New biopic ‘The Apprentice’ charts Donald Trump’s rise and subsequent notoriety in the world of business
Love, like or loathe Donald Trump, it’s difficult to deny the guy does have charisma. And he’s led quite the charmed life. A big chunk of Trump’s life is presented in shiny biographical form in new movie ‘The Apprentice’ by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi – a film that garnered quite the buzz at its premiere […]
The Apprentice – A Cautionary Tale Biopic
What more can be said about Donald Trump? Like him or not, he and his influence are everywhere for better or worse. A New York City real estate mogul turned one-time President of the United States, the impact of the polarizing figure will undoubtedly be felt for generations to come. Running once again for President…
The Apprentice – A Cautionary Tale Biopic
‘Saturday Night’- Film Review
Jason Reitman takes us back to 1975 to the behind-the-scenes production madness of the first broadcast of SNL. Is it worth checking out for longtime fans of the iconic sketch comedy series? DC Bolling gives us his thoughts on Saturday Night!
Saturday Night
Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!!!! Jason Reitman directed this biopic of the 90-minutes before the debut of Saturday Night Live (called NBC’s Saturday Night) and the chaos that was ensuing. Of course, as with most biopics, not everything is exactly as it happened as many details are switched or moved around for dramatic […]
TV Review – Shogun Season One
Shogun Season One (2024)Written by Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, and Caillin PuenteDirected by Jonathan van Tulleken, Charlotte Brändström, Frederick E.O. Toye, Hiromi Kamata, Takeshi Fukunaga, and Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour I must confess that of all the Japanese media, the stories surrounding this historical period typically leave […]
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul – Uniting Modernity and Tradition in Turkish Music
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Fatih Akin’s documentary Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city…
Maestro (2023)
Maestro (2023) is a biographical drama film from sophomore writer-director Bradley Cooper. Cooper also stars in the film as Leonard Bernstein, renowned Broadway composer, following his life and relationships, particularly with his wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan). The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival to strong reviews, and releases in theaters and on Netflix this December.…
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Style is half the picture. Story is the other half. William Shakespeare’s 17th-century play, The Tragedie of Macbeth, might be one of the greatest stories ever penned. If not, it’s at least one of the most durable. The desire for power, the ruthlessness of rule, and the all-consuming descent into madness that comes with conspiracy and […]
News from Catland
The Benedict Cumberbatch cat movie is better than the Benedict Cumberbatch dog movie, in our view. Not just because the dog movie has no dogs, just shadow that looks a but like one, whereas the cat movie has actual cats, lots of them, some of which speak to us via subtitles, but because the cat […]