There is a wealth of chameleon-like modes within Chiwetel Ejiofor — actor. director — who even in a dormant state engages the viewer. The man who plays along with White and Beauty, the Golden Globe winner, the star of several high profile projects like Apollo 18 and even the upcoming Venom: The Last Dance seems, […]
Catching Dust is a gripping and riveting thriller which ensures that no viewer breathes without anticipation. An abused woman suffocated by an overbearing spouse in the deserts of nowhere resorts to strange people to help her escape from the oppression. Issues of domestic violence, arguments between spouses, and ulterior motives are presented in the film
Three Women has a four great women tent-poling its creative efforts. Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, and Gabrielle Creevy. These skilful actors become the stars of the new drama channel Starz and within 10 episodes, hold the audience in wonder. The script? Not so much. One explanation of the lack of turns in this
An Irish heiress suffers captivity by her heartless uncle and his deranged offspring in this fascinating film adaptation of author J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s celebrated gothic novel. Lies We Tell takes its sweet time to create uneasiness and tension before launching into a horrific ordeal of sex and psychological trauma. Your foreboding chills will set
The End constitutes the first fictive writing of the award-winning documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. This is a post-apocalyptic musical, but don’t worry; it’s not what you think. Yet, there are, who would not hesitate to lean in, who would lock the door and barricade themselves with characters who are grossly eccentric and when big swings
Should we conceptualize The Secret History as if it were not only Southern but also set at a fraternity with the slackest students who rarely took their classes seriously, the picture would be akin to The Line. In this campus thriller, viewers will follow Alex Wolff’s performance in Dual Tom Baxter, starting his second year
The town of Happy Hollow is quite happy in Peacock’s new Horror-thriller ‘Hysteria’. But that’s okay since the main attraction is how this period set in the 1980s focuses on its premise of the Satanic panic and how it brings a connection with today’s world. Forty years ago, any hoo-ha about satanic cults and their
Yes, the characters in disaster films usually live in the present tense that this future catastrophe, however certain it may be, doesn’t get the likelihood of events that come. That’s the real drawback in creativity trying to aestheticize such tragic development in art or politics. It is the dramatization of global warming and its, satisfying
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The Brutalist is nothing but a remarkable cinematic piece with impressive scenes throughout its almost four hour run. The saga of a Jewish-Hungarian architect and his odyssey as an immigrant in the USA after World War II is one that can be described as an epic film directed and co written by Brady Corbet. Adrien
That said, Jacob Tremblay in 2017 gave quite encouraging portrayal again by starring in Wonder which is based on the book published by R.J. Palacio. The same author afterwards came out with one more graphic novel featuring some of the same characters so naturally Hollywood was ready to pounce on that one as well. It’s