“Baba used to say that being a kid was like being drunk: everyone remembers what you did except you,” recalls the contemplative Grace who is voiced by Sarah Snook of Succession in Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, his new stop motion feature. However, Grace gondi picture to herself for surfers as a report of […]
In recent years, a lot of mainstream single take films, also known as Oner, also come to surface. A classic example of these films is One Shot, Boiling Point and 1917, which blur out the lines of experimentalism in the cinema genre but is there any single frame film? Once again, Robert Zemeckis, the creator
Dr. Pepper and cigarettes are to the lead character in Taylor Sheridan’s latest nugget of gold in the television domain – an easily digestible combination. Having won an Academy Award, Billy Bob Thornton played the central character in the series – the lead character can be termed as an A-list star and once again the
The Seed of the Sacred Fig introduces the audience with unrelenting sharpness and horror. The film had to be filmed clandestinely. The renowned Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof had already been apprehended on several occasions by the dictatorial Islamic regime. He, his great cast, and the crew almost lost their lives to portray this heartbreaking account.
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Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ is one of Maria Callas’ best roles. The singer captivated the world with her rich tones and theatricality- something that was on display during Callas’ staged life which is documented in this biopic ‘Maria’. We actually observe operatic enunciations from a brain that formed novel characters, stories, and movements. Callas yearned for her
In the film A Real Pain, two cousins set out on a trip across Poland in memory of their grandmother. In this case, the reminiscence trip is meant for the daughter who died recently and the roots of her family who had to run away because of the Holocuast. The travelers expect to get reconciled
There is a dark history that revolves around the Munich Olympics in 1972. A Palestinian group called ‘Black September’ hijacked the Olympics by taking eleven Israelis hostage and broadcasted the event on live television which shocked the world. For the first time, 900 million viewers witnessed a global breakdown due to satellite technology. The events
Lost on a Mountain in Maine makes for quite a name as it narrates the true events of a 12-year-old boy who, once again, gets lost on his mountain in Maine. Sounds self-referential, but the moments in the film, make things clear. This new feature has most of the facts already available due to this
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Bonhoeffer traces the unrivaled bravery of the famous theologian and Lutheran pastor who opposed the genocidal evil of Nazi Germany. He critically held the view that all Christians should especially be activists but within the limits of the divine law. These were his last views before becoming a political prisoner destined to die in the
There is so much to be said about Cellar Door, in the same time there is much that cannot be said. The director, Vaughn Stein (Terminal) of this picture, has also gone extreme, many of the twists and the turns as the movie unfolds are deep and cut to the bone, however, it does fall