Pariah or Pariah Vol.1: Every Street Dog Has a Name [2024] tells the story of an unnamed hero who is a social outcast, but the bigger pariah is the stray dog The nature of this meaty business is obviously bad, but is it okay to be violently fair? Is the pariah resorting to demagogy to […]
Gaami is translated as ‘One on a quest’. This film tells the story of Shankar (Vishwak Sen), an aghora who becomes pale when he touches a human body. He goes in search of the rare glowing mushroom ‘Maalipatra’ that grows only once every 36 years at the top of Dronagiri mountain to heal himself. Along
Universal Language opens on a stationary wide shot of a French language school in Winnipeg. In the snow. The teacher comes storming in, late and angry; once there, he takes it out on his young Persian students, telling them flatly that they’ll never amount to anything. This moment specifically evokes Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s
Referring to someone as “the worst” is a pretty strong indictment. That’s the phrase Arthur Conan Doyle used to describe Charles Augustus Howell, an actual 19th century art dealer and blackmailer, whom he dubbed the worst man in London. It also serves as the title of Rodrigo Areias’ new film, which competed in IFFR’s Big
FINAL HEIST is a new TUBI Original thriller with just an hour and 23 minutes of runtime not including commercials. It’s short, which is in its favor because I can’t imagine what other unnecessary details would’ve been tacked onto this plot if it were any longer. It’s a MarVista production, which means fun but don’t
“The shortest way is not always the best one,” Tonhão (Caçula Rodrigues) explains to a pair of French tourists he’s been hired by to take through the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses national park in “Betânia.” They are less likely to argue with him than with each other, having clearly come to Brazil for entirely
According to XiXi, “I think the most important thing to be documented is freedom.” In Fan Wu’s thought-provoking documentary, the protagonist represents creative liberation in its most cathartic form. A free-spirited dancer/performance artist, she finds herself in Berlin where it seems like the best place for her to let her artistic instincts run wild. While
Steve Read and Robert Douglas are filmmaker colleagues who flew over from the UK to meet some of America’s greatest boxers not just any fighters, but those who turned to the sport as a means of escape from poverty. “In the Company of Kings” is about boxing’s brotherhood and its promise of redemption. Douglas begins
The animated adventure film “The Storm” is a little repetitive, but the animation is top-notch and the story takes a curveball turn. The ending is a bold move that won’t work for every viewer, but it’s unique among movies of this type. “The Storm” might have some similarities to Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 Oscar-winner “Spirited Away.”
During the time when goblins are attacking and taking over kingdoms, a young princess together with a poor jester should bring back her father’s throne by defeating the wicked stepmother. Moreover, this presents an opportunity for a movie which can use brand new IPs where real people are involved in creating them sustainably. This full-length
