There is something quite evocative about the film “Twister” that makes one wish for an adventurous outdoor landscape. The thrilling nature of this 1996 film showcases people chasing and running away from the tornadoes, which as a kid you would hope someday to see. Tornadoes function in a distinct manner they exist, they wreak havoc, […]
When I turned the last page of Dune, I felt a kind of emptiness inside. What’s surprising is that I seemed to be talking about the two together: the book Dune by Frank Herbert, and the film Dune Part 2 by Denis Villeneuve. Possibly this means that it was a good movie and did justice
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I wish Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film would have the same appeal and excitement as it does to millions of his fans. However, no one tells me this, but I have seldom understood what he is up to. It happens often that I get in the way of many of his helped obsessions and even his
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Death is a common feature of movies. One could argue that, in broad terms, movies of whatever genre be they thrillers a la Kill Bill or tear-jerkers such as Steel Magnolias, or even some of the more morbid thoughts of Ingmar Bergman is in a way a practiced artificiality of death. But such a point
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In the trench warfare of the Sinai desert, where Guy Ritchie sets his sights on his back-to-back World War II movies and claims yet another entertainingly delirious crime drama, what worked for him in the previous project brings into question in his latest. This is because Guy Ritchie is not known as a war movie
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Dystopia has never looked more bleak or felt more exhilarating than in George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’ franchise. A large part of the harshness of Miller’s works, which have thrilled audiences for years now, comes from hallucinogenic visuals of a barbaric and crumbling civilization that is so similar yet so far, giving people the feeling of
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Left alone by his ill wife, a busy father tries to manage a life-like AI with a personality and emotions. The most horrifying part about having this personal assistant is the fact that she now possesses the only thing this family has her owner’s love. And she is willing to murder the whole family for
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Bad Boys fans are a very passionate group Kelly portrays the third film in the franchise. For me, the first two are not even that good though there is chemistry between the main actors as well as certain good action scenes in the film. Bad Boys For Life, the third entry in the series quite
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My confusion knows no bounds, as this weekend I discover that there’s a new horror movie, one which I had reasonably expected I’d already watch playing at the theaters. Or so I thought A closer look at the picture leaves me thinking Bagman is a different picture altogether the one that I am thinking of
Although it remains an obscure one at best, “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” was announced to be produced with a budget of 20 million dollars, which is an even more curious number than its ‘low’ budget reboots. With such a low price tag, one might imagine expecting a makeshift YouTube fan film complete with gratuitous excess
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