In the real world, it’s normal people, not superhero’s, that bring about justice and change. Rachel Feldman, a writer and director, takes us through the elegy of a remarkable American woman in “Lilly”. The movie depicts how Lilly Ledbetter, the daughter of a poor farmer, bravely sued Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co for gender based […]
“Love Hurts” suffers from commitment phobia. It is a romantic action comedy that wants to be an exploitation film of the past with a modern touch, but it doesn’t seem to care about romance, action, or even comedy as it advertises them. The latter fact is made more appropriate by the fact that the movie
WATCH NOW There’s a yearly output of films, good and bad, based on the interdependence that exists between art and society as a sphere of horror. Take The Portrait for example. One might think that it tells a simple story, originating from modern-day horror, but it does not. The film is more like a psychodrama
WATCH NOW In my opinion, Image of Bruce Lee is not the best work of Li cinema, but neither is it the worst. The martial arts are superior to anything he had done before this film, but like his other films, there is too much pointless fighting, a ridiculous plot, bad moments, and so on,
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WATCH NOW It seems that no matter which Wes Anderson movie one watches, there seems to be a perfect amount of theme and drama, and to their personal level of enjoyment, it all comes down to how much drama schtick one can tolerate which is different for each individual. With a nuanced aesthetic, Anderson’s 2023
WATCH NOW And so, we come to the final curtain for Don “The Dragon” Wilson’s famous fighting franchise, and, last but certainly not least, it’s time for the series to be reviewed here on this very site! The past has indeed caught up to the hero once and is on the run with his teenage
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WATCH NOW Do you recall the huge surge in zombie media after the release of AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2010? It is correct to say that the zombie genre has been overdone, but I believe that this period produced very amusing (often wonderfully self-referential) spins on the premise. The audience just needed to know
Bringing a documentary to life is a difficult task, but it can also be entertaining and informative if executed properly. There lurks a danger, however, that if not done in the right way, it can end up being bland which is something I personally dread. Quite a number of documentaries can be spellbinding at first
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WATCH NOW Sarah, also known as Eleonora Saravalle, is an introverted college student who is navigating life after a breakup. She decides to celebrate her birthday with a friends’ reunion party at her step father’s quite remote cabin located a few hours drive from Los Angeles. Her friend, Connie Caemmerer, has a new boyfriend who
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WATCH NOW Werner Herzog filmed a movie titled Encounters at the End of the World, which is based on Antarctica, in the year 2007. During the filming, he had the chance to meet Clive Oppenheimer, who is a geographer and a seismologist at Cambridge University. This collaboration has led to fresh discoveries for Herzog in
