An engrossing documentary about the new age of financial and digital disruption. Ondi Timoner takes a complicated subject and makes it accessible and entertaining.
SXSW: The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution
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 […]
A Real Pain “Review”
A Real Pain, directed by Jesse Eisenberg, tells the poignant story of Jewish cousins David and Benji touring Poland to honor their grandmother. The film’s beautiful piano soundtrack enhances their emotional journey, revealing old tensions and family history. Despite minor shortcomings, it offers engaging performances and is worth watching, earning a rating of 6.5/10.
2025 Golden Globe Predictions
The first major precursor of the upcoming awards season is right around the corner! The 82nd Golden Globe Awards announce their nominations next Monday, December 9th, giving us our first glimpse at which films and performances will be honored this year. Who are the early frontrunners? What snubs and surprises might we see? Let’s look […]
Bushido (2024) review
Kazuya Shiraishi proves that the frame of the samurai and the Edo society can still be utilized to deliver refreshing narratives.
TIFF 2024:Thrilling and Equally Insane Exploration of Parenthood
With domestic violence being a crisis that should be declared a global pandemic, it is surprising that no organization exists to assess whether couples planning to become parents are truly fit for the role. The issue is not about financial stability or kindness alone. Raising a child is not easy; it requires certain prerequisites before […]
TIFF 15 Review: High-Rise
It’s always great pleasure seeing such movies where from the opening scene you’re thrown into strange atmosphere of weirdness, tempting and seductive world from where you don’t really want to come back, no matter how uncontrolled the environment is. But in the end when the film over, you will feel a strong feeling of appreciation […]
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 […]
Maria Review
A direction by Pablo Larrain with emphasis. A performance by Angelina Jolie that is stunning and emotional. Maria is a spellbinding film about the talent of an artist with a screenplay that displays honor and courage, Maria takes the appreciation of art and opera to a level that is truly committed. It is more of a reflection piece where […]
Nickel Boys Review
Directed by RaMell Ross, this is one of the most spellbinding literary adaptations that will be remembered for ages. Nickel Boys is based on the Pulitzer winning novel written by Colson Whitehead. Nickel Boys is a revelation in the eyes of an authenticity—it weaves its audience into the journey of its main characters. Revolving around rough times in the 1960s, it is in an in-depth exploration that is remarkable. Ross […]
Witches: Stalked by the Shadow of Madness
A serious yet poignant documentary that explores the parallels between the historical portrayal of witches & mental illness during & after pregnancy.
Aftersun
My sister, years back, discovered some old movies of us on holiday. I distinctly remember me and my dad, walking over a wooden bridge and me bouncing up and down on it “Look how pissed off you made him!” laughed my sister, as there in the fuzzy world of the past, my dad looked back […]
London Film Festival 2024: The Balconettes Review
For my next film at the London Film Festival, I decided to go with The Balconettes, mainly because, looking at the creative team, I saw that it was co-written by Celine Sciamma, who is one of my favourite directors working today, reuniting with Noemie Merlant. The general premise of the film sounded intriguing to me […]
Review: “Sleep”
The scary part is the lack of control. When you’re asleep, anything can happen. Your mind can dream up things wonderful and terrible. You can talk out loud. You can get up and move and walk with zero conscious control over your limbs. Recently, I fell asleep at my desk while working on a job […]
NIGHTBITCH (2024): New Trailer From Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Zoë Chao…
Directed by Marielle Heller; Nightbitch is a new comedy/drama/horror film starring Amy Adams. With a supporting cast that includes Scoot McNairy and Zoë Chao, Adams plays a woman whose domesticity takes a surreal turn after pausing her career to become a full-time mother. Erm… So, this is very unexpected. I’m down for the humour and […]
Film Review: Monster
Told from multiple perspectives, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster is a multi-faceted drama about a lack of understanding in our world.
Film Review: Emilia Pérez
A Mexican cartel leader undergoes gender-affirming surgery in Jacques Audiard’s really bad musical Emilia Pérez.
Sorrentino: Parthenope (2024)
Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film, Parthenope, is one of the most alluring of his career – and that’s really saying something. It’s about a young woman, the Parthenope of the title, played by Celeste Della Porta, who is born into a wealthy Neapolitan family in the 1950s. Most of the film takes place in the 1970s, […]
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Sid Vicious came out of the British working-class. He was rude, uneducated, violent, and profane. Unlike Keith Moon, who was one of the greatest drummers who ever lived, he wasn’t even a particularly good musician. Nancy Spungen came out of the American middle-class. She was an abrasive, emotionally needy substance abuser who wasn’t even particularly […]
Anora
Anora makes it clear why no woman — no man — should marry the son of a Russian oligarch. In Sean Baker’s comedy the title character, played by Mikey Madison, meets Vanya Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn) at a Manhattan club where she’s a sex worker and after a dizzy weekend he plays Richard Gere to her […]