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Maharaja When movies blow up on social media, I like to take a wait and see approach. Generally, I let the initial excitement die down before watching it myself. But Maharaja was different. One of my friends asked me to watch it at midnight, and then another asked me to check it out in the […]

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes What is it about Elizabeth Taylor? Her work caught my fancy, I think, with the Zeffirelli Shakespeare “The Taming of the Shrew” and the Nichols Albee “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” both with then husband Richard Burton. And then also I must have seen her in some of the “Father

A Different Man Here we are, three weeks into January, and the Sundance Film Festival has delivered what promises to be the year’s most uncomfortable date movie, a grubby New York set fable about a facially distinctive actor (modeled on Adam Pearson) who undergoes an experimental procedure that leaves him looking like Sebastian Stan presumably

The Pope’s Exorcist In his original review of “The Exorcist” from 1973, Roger Ebert wrote about “the absolute rightness” of casting the older priest who battles evil opposite the demonically possessed child with Max von Sydow, a great character actor. “He has been through so many religious and metaphysical crises in Ingmar Bergman’s films that

Daughter of Genghis is a documentary that spends seven years with a mother and son but the character arc it captures is so compelling, it could not have been better paced if it were fiction. She calls herself Gerel. She works as a Mongolian nationalist fighting against China’s influence over her culture. On the surface,

Terry Gilliam is a frustratingly enormous talent, but also two traits that struggle with each other while you watch one of his movies and often team up to fight him. I have a feeling that Gilliam giggles. This must be what irritates his financiers and studios about him. It’s no wonder he has trouble getting

To amuse myself, I chose to watch a horror film known as “Hantu Polong”. But sadly, was it far from entertaining. The title alone made me nervous from the beginning. Still, I decided to give it a try. When I heard that “Hantu Polong” was based on a story in Penyengat Island, Riau Islands, I

What’s nice about 23 Mile, a new film by Mitch McCabe, is that it shows images many of them plain, scary, and shocking without reaching any conclusions. The director, who also produced and edited the nonfiction movie, leaves the camera running and lets people talk from all sides of the fights that happened in America

Collateral Also at the beginning of the century, precisely in 2004. Collateral was released in theaters, directed by the great Michael Mann. After the success of his previous film, Ali, where Will Smith plays the famous boxer, Muhammed Ali. This time Mann turns to the thriller. It Starring Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise in great

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring The most popular film by Kim Ki-duk in Russia, after him it can already be considered his people’s director. The thing is that his other paintings are a test of nerves for strength, but this one could go with a girl and know what she would definitely like. And