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As “Cuckoo” exposes its premise, it gets more perplexed and baffled. When it comes to explaining the peculiar mysteries that underlie this beautifully shot and disturbing thriller, writer-director Tilman Singer only succeeds in losing the viewer even more. The question of ‘how’ and ‘why’ does the film slowly turn into a muddled together black-skinned mystery, […]

Just because we already know how the film unfolds doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate the trip. This is especially true when the film has a clever plot and has an Oscar winner play a three-dimensional soggy princess character who is a hot mess, sobers up when the plot thickens and tries to pull the story

This might sound mean, but some of the Looney Tunes-like qualities that this version of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic has may actually benefit the film. Especially during the first hour because whenever Doug Liman and Anthony Bagarozzi & Charles Mondry set the table, it is a very fun era-style aesthetic feeling for long

It has been over fifty years since Helen Reddy sung, “I am woman, hear me roar!” but the same principle can be applied when talking about Amy Adams’ fierce lead performance in Marielle Heller’s more understated “Nightbitch.” In the credits, Adams is only listed as ‘Mother’, and the character is someone who devoted all her

I am sure this is not your first time to hear or read about an unusual couple, one an American, the other a British who runs a small rather narrow business, who is content with family and friends but slightly in the loam and wandering, whose partner is an internationally known figure but is bored

I can understand the feelings of some fans. When I watched the original Descendants trilogy in anticipation of the new release Descendants: The Rise of Red, I too got hooked. To be fair, there’s no mistaking when the final scene of the third film revolves around three protagonists who steal the show from the word

“Lisa Frankenstein” is a horror/comedy directed by Zelda Williams and written by Diablo Cody of “Jennifer’s Body” fame. Although the film is extremely stylish and has great cinematography with some great acting, it does not hold the candle to Cody’s previous works. The main character is just fundamentally not very likable, the scenes change so

Kristen Stewart’s character Lou, the gym manager, enters the frame in a rather unconventional way with her hand in the toilet. The film is brutish as well in the sense that it contains violence, sex, and love and is directed by Rose Glass who we saw earlier this year in ‘Permission Man’ with ‘Love Lies

As it is well known, there is a large variety of directors who started their careers in scary movies and later transferred to more commercially accepted genres, such as Peter Jackson or Jordan Peele. They are inexpensive, widely accepted, and mostly don’t come with the pressure cooker of expectations associated with making a blockbuste­flm. It

There are two protagonists in the annoying military actioner ‘Land of Bad’ and one of them is better than the other. While attempting to execute one such successful hostage extraction, both the protagonists are fighting some head cutting terrorists who in the earlier scenes talk about the world and the differences between them and their