Most people don’t know a lot about recent Nigerian history. In a way, Jide Tom Akinleminu‘s When a farm goes aflame find a parallels in that wall of not knowing things. And he finds it about the people he loves. Much of his documentary is an epistolary one. Sometimes, his mother Grete or Titi writes […]
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In a way, Liliana Cavani’s The Skin has an uphill journey. It’s similar to the journey that American soldiers in 1943 take while ‘liberating’ Naples from the Fascists. There’s one thing makes this film difficult to like right off the bat. And that thing is the way it underuses two of its marquee stars. The first […]
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Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) wants to do more to help the world. Four years prior, she applies to be an adoptive mother for Ukrainian orphans but agencies saw her and her twin sister Asa (also Geirharðsdóttir) as too old. The present day of Benedikt Erlingsson’sWoman At War has agencies loosening their restrictions to allow them to be […]
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It’s not uncommon for actors and actresses to want to try their hand at directing a film. In fact many award winning directors started their career in front of the camera. Most of them however take their time building up experience and knowledge before making the leap to the director’s chair. The time they take […]
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Abel Ferrara’s The Blackout has, to quote Stefon, everything – beautiful women, analog TVs, and movie stars dealing with addiction issues. One of the movie stars in question is Matty (Matthew Modine), who is slightly jealous that his girlfriend, Annie (Beatrice Dalle) is starting to get more attention than him. They eventually have a fight […]
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Gritty, procedural crime dramas aren’t for everyone, and while there are several reasons for this, there are two big ones. The first, is they sometimes show a dark side to law enforcement, with characters who may not be the most likable. Unfortunately, these days such things are all too prevalent in our everyday lives. The […]
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Opening this week from Universal Pictures is the latest entry into one the greatest 21st-century film franchises, the box office juggernaut that is Fast X. Long evolved from realistic storytelling, the 10th entry in the Fast and Furious franchise is perhaps the most bombastic of them all, which is saying something for taking street racing […]
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Pietro grows from a city child (Lupo Barbierio) to an angsty teen (Andra Palma). He takes his anger out on his parents (Elena Lietti and Filippo Timi) because their middle class meddling. They inadvertently separate him from his best friend Bruno (Francesco Palombelli). The adults decisions have reverberations that separate the teens in class, among […]
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Georgian female chess Grand Master Nana Ioseliani runs in nature – she’s doing this in one of those Soviet archive newsreels. There are pros and cons in living as a woman during the Soviet era. There are times when woman can have opportunities but also face situations that expose their vulnerabilities. The documentary about Ioseliani […]
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We sometimes forget forget and make the assumption that the Russo-Ukrainian War stopped in 2014 and recommenced two years ago. However, Maksym Nakonechnyi‘s The Butterfly Vision remind viewers that it is an ongoing conflict. Citizens fought the war between those years in their own ways, although Lilia ‘Butterfly’ (Marharyta Burkovska) fights the war in a conventional […]
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