In It Ends with Us, a daughter doing her best to eliminate a vicious cycle of domestic violence that plagues the family seeks a rest from two’s equally adverse spouses. It contrasts with the aforementioned slow drawl and flaccid anti-climax in a very well crafted and captivating narrative of self-discovery. This turns out to be […]
If it were given to someone, and the person in question could not do anything to change it, when would they be able to die? It’s not the first time this hypothetical has been put forward and certainly it must have led some to some debates over the forthcoming years, and without some temporal restraint
The display of romance between humans and supernatural creatures is not new or rare and may be traced back to the Greeks and their love stories. There are many reasons behind this logical standing point. The harsh truth about genuine love as opposed to mere infatuation is the fact that love can be hurtful and
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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Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes all the right moves in a stunning performance of a classic detective trying to solve a murder mystery in Greece. The Killer Heat is a motion picture which is based on a short novel by very famous Norway writer Jo Nesbø. You get all the qualities of an old detective novel. It
Friends come and go, but family is forever. That was the adage about family up until the time people began to relook at the concept family and its significance. Indeed, there is an increasing acceptance of the idea of a family that is not biological and this is becoming depicted on screen in different ways.
If the figures are correct, E. L. James’s book “Fifty Shades of Grey,” has been purchased by more than a hundred million people, out of which only twenty million were under the delusion that it is a paint catalogue. That leaves a solid eighty million or so who had to read something like – “He
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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
Things have not always been as simple as they seem with Faithless (or Trolösa)´s history. The screenplay was written long before the life of Ingmar Bergman, a genius director by everyone’s standards. He is not the one who made that film out; that guess belongs to his former lover and film partner, Liv Ullman, who
Close Your Eyes is in an altogether different league the last time a Spanish master bears in a film comes after a period of almost thirty years. It is with great slowness that a well-orchestrated but highly intimate enigma is revealed as would a master painter on an intricately planned canvas. The master’s resourceful hero