WATCH NOW War movies are an intriguing type of movie for the film enthusiast. Not for the violence, or for the first-person presentations of events in the film, but because the work depicts particular sentiments toward war during the era and the society in which it is produced. Films made during the war period tend […]
WATCH NOW The saying goes that there is no anger in this world that can compare to a woman who has been scorned. I do not wholly believe in this adage. Broadly speaking, a furious rage is birthed from a person faced with any sort of friction, especially a man, towards reaching their goal. I
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What is the procedure for dealing with unimaginable betrayal? How do we deal with events that impact a person’s life so cruelly that recovery seems next to impossible? These are two of the questions posed by Christian Petzold’s ‘Phoenix’, a cinematic piece that distinguishes Petzold as one of the foremost directors in the industry today.
WATCH NOW The film does seek to remain as true to history and the sources we have for the life of Francis, which is the focus of the film, Clare and Francis. The work on the film is very impressive and attempts to cover an extensive variety of material and regions in history. The movie,
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WATCH NOW As I was flipping through the selection of movies to watch during the flight, a title featuring the name Bezos sparked my interest. It had to be a biopic on Jeff Bezos and the founding of Amazon. I was hoping for something in a similar vein to the recently released BlackBerry and older
Roberta Grossman‘s documentary on Jewish American volunteer fighter pilots who participated in the 1948 Israel War of Independence is indeed a gripping yet lesser-known story recounted in a winning manner. Above and Beyond was made for Hollywood and is a winner on the festival circuit, it won’t have any problems finding the attention of art-house
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WATCH NOW The Boonies, and yes that is undoubtedly a play on THAT more famous 80s action-adventure comedy, sees five seniors who were childhood best friends who nicknamed themselves The Boonies become reunited after a dead classmate video reveals a million-dollar treasure hunt inside Boone High School (Boonies, Boone High School, Reddit). I’m not going
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WATCH NOW Mary of Nazareth is directed by the famous European filmmaker Giacomo Campiotti. This conviction brought forth within me an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that drew out an immense amount of love and trust from within, all while watching the film. Her unshakeable faith is what inspired me the most, and the greatest
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Orson Welles has referred to his approach for “Citizen Kane” as “prismatic”, and while there are many differences in topic and style from that cinema landmark to Michael Almeria’s “Experimenter”, these two films have a shared multi layered formal gameplaying as well as an intellectual weight that makes them equally powerful, fresh and creative. Part
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WATCH NOW Here is an important point. Over the years, cinema has had a central place in dealing with historically traumatic events, enabling human beings to cohere the disassociated and overwhelming content of suffering or violence. It is, for instance, through film that the dramatization of the phenomenon of Newtown gained global notoriety. Snyder moves
