WATCH NOW From “Princess Mononoke” to “Crash,” incredible stories come in all forms. Some are so beautiful and hard-hitting that simply watching them makes me grateful I even had the chance to see it. Some films that represent reality touch your emotions on a level beyond mere entertainment. The best of these is when a […]
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WATCH NOW In order to pitch a masterpiece and avoid spending a month in the slammer, a disgraced art historian must get her hands dirty by winning the affection of an Episcopal priest and subsequently extorting him for cash. With only day left to repay the ‘loan’, was a master’s degree truly worth selling eight
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WATCH NOW The Son of Monte Cristo is a swashbuckling novel from 1940 inspired by classic works such as A Count of Monte Cristo, A Mark of Zorro, A Scarlet Pimpernel, and A Prisoner of Zenda written in a very comedic manner, most easily digestible. Lichtenburg, the setting of the book is a small fictitious
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WATCH NOW Now that the multi-venue ImagineAsia festival has started and the Satyajit Ray retrospective has opened at London’s National Film Theatre, this week promises to have loads of South Asian movies and this film, by first feature director Asif Kapadia, is an excellent way to make use of the moment. The Warrior is the
WATCH NOW A stilted yet polite B Western set in the New England Mohawk Valley before the revolution, depicts the conflicts between settlers and the Iroquois caused by a spiteful white man. Yoni Zohar’s “The Desperados Are in Town”/ “Rocketship X-M” came up with Kurt Neumann’s vision for it and Maurice Geraghty and Milton Krims
WATCH NOW Ray Milland has always taken on darker roles at least from the many movies I have seen him in. I don’t remember the first movie of his I watched, but I do recall that it was always accompanied by a villainous character. I am trying to recall a movie where he was not
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WATCH NOW In the movie ‘Nothing But the Truth, the journalist Alan Alda plays a scene in which he reads the discounting opinion from the Supreme Court that caters to the rights of journalists in protecting their anonymous sources. I was led to have the impression that these speeches were true and indeed they were
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WATCH NOW Even as a serial killer with a history, he has a penchant for violence, Thorn (Richard Daniel Thomas Holloran) remains a man of tradition. Every two “leap years”, on Leap Day, he visits a remote red state and targets as many teenage students as possible so he can stab the life out of
WATCH NOW Demas Harrod( Tom Tryon), a US cavalryman, guides a rookie group of motley individuals out west with the purpose of battling Native American ‘hostiles’. At the cavalry outpost, he is overjoyed to be reunited with his partner, the stunning widow Lou Woddard (Senta Berger). To his dismay, he finds out that Sol Rogers
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WATCH NOW Maverick: Manhunt Brazil, an action-crime movie, tells a story about a lone mercenary named Jack Maverick. He heads to Brazil on the mission of investigating a few recent suicide cases and later finds himself involved in a deeper drug cults case. Span of loyalty is redefined while the bullets cherish shredding the truth.
