We Live in Time The already teary eyed romantic drama took off after ‘The Notebook’ but was pretty much extinguished by multiple adaptations of Nicholas Sparks’s and other writers’ novels. What John Crowley achieves with ‘We Live in Time’ is that it resembles classic four wall love stories, which one has encountered in countless movies […]
Piece by Piece It’s hard not to see the appeal of a hybrid musical-docu-biopic Lego movie like “Piece by Piece.” One would guess that the overwhelming happiness associated with the song released by William Pharrell, “Happy,” would be perfect in animation. I mean, Williams’ music which is playful and genre defying sounds like a post-soul
Saturday Night Time was tracking its lapse rate. Who shows up as SNL is preparing to hit the NBC screen valve within 90 minutes? It is a matter of concern that seats are still unoccupied, costume changes have not been rehearsed, a barrage of lights has nearly crashed onto the actors, the script remains undocumented,
The Apprentice The popular and much polarised American show “The Apprentice” has transformed into a narrative having some elements from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And who fulfills the role of the mad scientist in this version? Yes, it is Roy Cohn assisted by another terrible brute Fred Trump. In a broad sense, it is not difficult
Caddo Lake In the words of one of Max’s original Caddo Lake protagonists, Paris Long: “If you can’t explain yourself, you are going nowhere”. The quote is insightful, but this time it worries me, because I’m not sure I could give a full explanation of the events of this film, and so I’m not sure
Monster Summer It’s understandable that, as “Stranger Things” edges closer to its final season, there is the desire to look for new releases to bridge the wasteland till then especially considering how old the children may have become by the end and possible age they may have reached, it is most likely that they will
Blink Between Montreal and Mongolia, Namibia and Nepal, Egypt and Ecuador on the map, a zenith is reached in “Blink”. It feels more mature than the usual travel books which one would think a documentary of a family travelling around the word for one year would be, with such a synopsis and a storyline that
Things Will Be Different “Things Will Be Different” tells the story of two siblings, who constantly commit felonies, jump time, get stuck to a farmhouse where a crime has already occurred, and begin to feel like they are serving a sentence in some form of timeless hell (though a very strange one). Finnish filmmaker Michael
The Outrun Although the concept of ‘nature is healing’ was mostly a joke during the lockdown as a result of human activities, there was some legitimacy to it in the sense that, quite unintentionally, there is something satisfying to giving nature a minute to breath and ‘reset’ from the constant interaction made by mankind. In
It’s What’s Inside Panic as preposterous as game nights has become great material for horror films with “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Talk To Me” being some of the biggest hits within its sub-genre this decade so far. Writer filmmaker Greg Jardin also taps into this format for his feature film debut It’s What’s Inside which
