In some sports documentaries, there is a moment when viewers wonder if they had taken Gatorade. The fast cuts, rising music, body injuries and psychological pains, triumphant moments and tears on the podium all conspire to touch our feelings. In Sarah Dowland’s film “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” this time for reflection comes up as […]
While executive producing the movie, Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Short Term 12) also gives a powerful performance as a young woman living in Brooklyn who struggles to deal with her feelings after she is raped by a stranger. Light of the Moon is the first feature from writer director producer editor Jessica M. Thompson, who
White Rose Film Review – First Thoughts I was only ten minutes into watching White Rose when I began to wonder how much misfortune could one person experience in a lifetime? Divya (Kayal Anandhi), the girl who got married outside her religion and was disowned by her parents, then loses her husband in an accident.
“As America’s longest war raged on in Afghanistan, a film was made between 2005 and 2021 but this is not a war movie.” I’ve seen many documentaries, but none like One Bullet. Carol Dysinger has chronicled her journey to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2021. She is the subject but also not the subject. She ends
“Five, six, seven, eight!” On a beach, 12 women in red cheerleading outfits begin a routine that a coach off screen who bursts onto the scene to interject “The center is right here! Girls, spread out.” shows them. In some ways it’s not your typical cheerleading team, this one is made up of older women
Written by Jerry Robbins and directed by Chris Hollo, The Legend of Lake Hollow tells the story of a group of friends who go to a cabin by a lake to relax, only for strange things to start happening. They are being followed by something sinister and strangers appear and vanish without a trace. Staring
Set between 2014 and 2021, when this FaceTime dependent “aesthetic” was still forming, It Doesn’t Matter appears to be composed entirely of first person, to camera narration that could be drawn from reels, which makes it a feat of liquid montage storytelling by Josh Mond. A surrogate filmmaker played by Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) knits
To say that Rajpal Yadav’s Kaam Chalu Hai is well-intentioned would be an understatement. The story centres round Manoj Patil, whose daughter dies in a road accident caused by a pothole. When the authorities refuse to help him, Patil, inspired by a true incident, decides to fill up all those craters himself. There is genuine
Recently, many people have been talking about man-child protagonists in Indian movies however, this is taken to a whole new level by Sharwanand’s latest film Manamey. The main character of the movie, Vikram (Sharwanand), can be described as a typical man-child who lacks real responsibility and is happy with that. We are told he is
Motel Destino, a film by Karim Aïnouz, starts out as lively and interesting, establishing itself as a potentially excellent neo-noir set in the vibrant surroundings of the North-Eastern region of Brazil. It is about Heraldo (Iago Xavier) and his brother who love to go to the beach and practice capoeira but are also small-time crooks
