The Paragon At the same time, “The Paragon,” Michael Duignan’s creation, is, to say the least, mad in its creation in the sense of time space fiction akin to what one would associate with classic B grade sci-fi and fantasy feature films the likes of “Krull”, “Flash Gordon” and “Masters of the Universe” where cringeworthingly […]
My First Film It’s unusual to discover something new in literature today especially when it has already been ‘done’ so many times. It’s rare to see a voice that’s never been there before, an artist with the audacity to engage with form and language of the film as they were never engaged before in a
I’ll Be Right There Romantic, platonic, or familial, relationships will have you asking the same age old question. At which point does support turn into bedrock? It is the question answered by Wanda (Edie Falco), constantly saving the people she loves. Or it would be, if all that saving she does afforded her five minutes
Don’t Turn Out the Lights What is a hang-out movie? Or is it possible that there are specific genres of movies which together with an appropriate state of mind will feel better? Do you need to be a pothead or a genre nerd or any other kind of freak to enjoy that? Fair enough but
Red Rooms Death is inescapable and a part of being human. Such an interest in darkness in Tavistock, and Americans in particular, always has to be rationalized and excuse it’s like Dame Elizabeth said, “the lady doth protest too much.” So it is nice that Pascal Plante’s heroine of the Quebecois techno thriller ‘The Red
The Greatest of All Time In the middle of ‘The Greatest of All Time,’ a film in the Tamil language featuring the perpetually youthful Vijay, the audience is treated to a twist. This, I must tell you, pertains to my entire argument about how far Vijay would go to prove the title of the movie
Rebel Ridge Writer and director Jeremy Saulnier doesn’t waste any time at all in getting right into the thick of things with his very good new thriller, “Rebel Ridge.” One is reminded that the man who brought us “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room” is among the best when it comes to making films that deal
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” contains so many comedic gambits that after every few minutes one is forced to take a break. Tim Burton is back to what he had often done in the past, which is to say that at the beginning of his career he did not care about form, other than at the
Wolfs The bickering between George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s characters has to be one of the most entertaining qualities in any cinematic workout. Besides several other movies, these two gentlemen have developed some comic relationships in the films around the ‘Ocean’s’ saga directed by Steven Soderbergh. (To take one of their other films as an
Merchant Ivory There has been such an evolution in the history of cinema that the name Merchant Ivory can now be considered as a noun. It is derived from the names of Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant who worked together from the 1960s until the death of Merchant in 2005. The critics use
