Voluntary mass migration is now happening in Africa. Intra-African migration has been on the rise in recent years, with African migrants moving within the continent and extra-continental emigration following suit also on a massive level. “If you feel like leaving, go to Mzansi” Mzansi being South Africa is a statement commonly used in Kenya concerning […]
Daghabaaz Dil, one of the two Urdu movies to release this Eid, had more people coming into cinema halls than Junaid Khan’s starrer comedy number, Hum Tum Aur Wo. The director seemed to have messed up with the final product in order to please all stake holders: mixing a family wedding with brothers fighting for
Entering the first scene with an imitation firearm in hand, protagonist Luca (Yiannis Niarros) tells the audience, “This is just an acting exercise.” This could describe Antonis Tsonis’s first feature film, each scene is unevenly acted and universally overstated. An exploration of obsession and guilt turns into a freak show that is too big for
It is always a nice surprise when a film looks too campy for its own good and loses my interest. However, I prefer to give all movies a fair chance, and I’m glad I did with Becky. The advertisements made it seem like one of those movies that would have gone straight to digital or
The film that I am going to talk about is very grim. It talks about the inhumane acts that were done by the Russians during their invasion of Ukraine. This documentary, which is also Oksana Karpovych’s second feature, showed how the enemy was dehumanized and treated as if they were not even human beings but
Sharmin was a girl with big dreams. She had no idea that love was about to hit her in the face. In Rajshahi, amidst beautiful green fields, she found Farhan. Farhan is like a bird; he can’t be tamed. He called her ‘madam elachi’ and she thought him transparent as an open book. They were
A lower-class suburb of Buenos Aires. For years an underground lottery business has operated out of this dead end street of identical houses, following the death of her father and figurehead Hugo (Hugo Felpeto), daughter Maribel (Maribel Felpeto) takes charge with mother Alejandra (Alejandra Cánepa). Now it is thriving, with Maribel employing several clerks to
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Certain species of hawk moths, such as the death’s head hawk moth, have achieved a level of fame in the movies. Many film lovers will know them as the calling card of Buffalo Bill, the serial killer in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning “The Silence of the Lambs.” Dark, twitchy moths with markings that look like skulls
(Pri)sons looks like a mix of extreme horror and old school action cinema. Finland may not be the first country you think of when it comes to action cinema but they have certainly dabbled in various branches of exploitation cinema over the years and (Pri)sons definitely looks exploitative. (Pri)sons follows a ragtag group of criminals
It had to happen someday; for a US-Sri Lankan indie, rom-com movie to feature the most famous Sri Lankan herbal drink, Samahan. This tea is very popular in India as it helps build immunity and fight cough and cold. In Ben and Suzanne’s Reunion in 4 Parts, writer-director Shaun Seneviratne mentions Samahan several times which
