10 Essential Filipino Movies of the decade (2010s)
A new generation of Filipino filmmakers are re-establishing the relationship between movies and society by utilizing the expansion of materials…
Taipei Story (1985): A City in Purgatory
What Antonioni managed to depict with ‘L’avventura’ and the succeeding two films in his ‘Alienation’ trilogy was how the physical…
Identifying Features [2020] Review: A story of a mother looking for her son
Shot as if it were atmosphere, ‘Identifying Features’ (Sin señas particulares) has a pretty much non-male crew. In spite of…
Zola [2021] Review: A Dazzlingly Original Film With High Stakes And Low Rewards
“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out??? It’s kind of long but so…
False Positive [2021] ‘Hulu’ Review: “Elevated” Mommy Brain
False Positive HULU Review – I don’t think there’s a term more ill-conceived in our cinematographic society than “Elevated horror.”…
What happens ‘When A Woman Ascends the Stairs’?
An examination of consequences for a woman ‘who ascends the stairs’ in the post-war Japanese society. Mikio Naruse is regarded…
Sherni (2021) Review: A Muted Vidya Balan Roar
Amazon Prime dropped its much-awaited release Sherni (2021), starring Vidya Balan, on the 18th of June, and ever since the…
Do Not Hesitate [2021] – ‘Tribeca’ Review – An Anti-War Movie focusing on the ravages of war on the youth
“Do Not Hesitate” opens with a 5-minute sequence of our protagonist playing the drums, with energy and ferocity but also…