“I could not even begin to take stock of what they will say about me,” says Dr. Orion Zephyr (Ron Perlman) at the beginning of Succubus. “This is my research. You can’t force me to love you like that. I love you. Forgive me.” In short order, the man leaves his office, takes an ax […]
After helming highly praised episodes of M. Night Shyamalan’s acclaimed Apple TV+ series Servant, filmmaking pair Celine Held and Logan George decided to pitch a screenplay of theirs to the Signs director to gauge his interest in producing. From inception, the rest is history and Caddo Lake is set for release on Max this week.
It’s a fact – Joker: Folie à Deux has a plethora of musical interludes that most people thought were peripheral to the story. This is the bold and controversial continuation of the origin story of a nemesis of Batman, for which a plethora of Oscar nominations was received in the year 2020 and even won
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For quite some time now, Kate Winslet has been inspiring Lee Miller’s creativity. Long before the release of the biopic on American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller, the oscar and emmy award-winning actress got in touch with Tony Penrose, son of Lee and Roland Penrose. For some reason she wanted to know why nobody
In this tautly-constructed, impeccably acted biographical film, Christopher Nolan delves into the life and times of J. Robert Oppenheimer, including the politically charged issues surrounding this historical figure and his prominent achievements. The American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by American historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin serves as the
DreamWorks Animation has just produced a superb animated film that they have not done since the 2010 How to Train Your Dragon. The Wild Robot is better than even the most optimistic of you may expect. Feel the bliss of a helpbot coming to terms with her maternal instincts over an abandoned gosling. She, too,
For the sake of this review’s purpose, it would be senseless to try to persuade anyone that parenting (and motherhood in particular) is not hard. Spoiler alert: it is. For all the beauty and joy of seeing a child grow up, at times being a mother is nothing but a thankless job. With little appreciation
What would you do if your 39-year-old self came back to give you life-changing advice about the future when you were a teenager? Would you heed such warnings? Or do you go un-chained and risk the somewhat likely possibility of heartache and despair? This is the splendidly imaginative and moving core of the narrative My
Under ideal circumstances, On Swift Horses would have been termed the Brokeback Mountain for the young people of a different generation. The modern day Western earned a jealous critical praise upon its release in 2010 and quickly came to be termed as the immoral version of Ang Lee’s Oscar winning film Brokeback Mountain. The calculated
What makes romance such an exciting genre is the fact that everyone understands it. Even if you present the specifics in very different styles, it hardly matters if the classic, or to say the least the essential, components are present. We Live in Time, which was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival, knows its